Installing the 2.4.17-r3 kernel gave me the following critical error on bootup: "module request [block-major-34] root fs not mounted:VFS cannot open root". After trying various kernel recompiles, and passing different options on boot the result was the same. I just re-installed using 2.4.16-r3 and had no problems. My System (as I suspect it is some kind of conflict with my hardware - but then again I am not a developer...) Athlon 1400 786 Mb RAM Gigabyte 7DXR (raid not enabled) 2xIMB 75GXP 40Gb hard disks Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce 3 Soundblaster Live 5.1
I think you compiled IDE disk support as a module instead of putting it in the kernel. Marking this one as WORKSFORME.