This is a new one for me. I tried to install the linux 2.6.24 kernel
from kernel.org using the regular method:

1. download it from kernel.org and unpack into /usr/src
2. get the latest "linus" source (this from 2.6.23-0.rc8)
3. ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.24 /usr/src/linux
4. cd /usr/src/linux
5. make mrproper
6. cp (config from linus source 2) ./.config
7. make oldconfig (and accept all defaults)
8. make all
9. make modules_install
10. make install
11. lilo

Problem is, when it tries to boot 2.6.24 it does

....
creating root device
unable to access resume device

and then it kernel panics shortly thereafter.

The lilo entry is:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24
label="2.6.24"
root=/dev/hda3
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.24.img
append="resume=/dev/hda2"

which is identical to the 2.6.19.3 lilo entry which works.

So I compared the .config from 2.6.19.3 and 2.6.24, and there were a lot
of changes. This is an ATA system, and it isn't finding an ATA device,
so I looked hardest in that section and found these changes (old->new):

CONFIG_IDE=y -> CONFIG_IDE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y -> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y -> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m

Seems likely to me that the kernel does not have IDE built into it, and
cannot load it as a module because, well, it has no IDE in it and so
cannot read the disk where the modules live. Is this reasonable or has
some other IDE boot mode been added to recent kernels which should have
worked around this issue?

Anybody else seen this? If it isn't changing these 3 parameters back
what is the fix?

Thank you,

David Mathog