So I've got the fun job of making a pair of boot and root floppies based on 2.6 and busybox. Now, the rootdisk I've got is fine, it can be booted to by our old 2.4 bootdisk (which the config is lost for), I just can't get the 2.6 build to find the rootdisk. The filesystem on the rootdisk is ext2, gzipped as normal. Lilo on the boot floppy is correctly aimed at /dev/fd0, the error when it fails to find the rootdisk is:

Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (2,0)

Now, plug that into google and you get a lot of goop that is pretty much people with HD problems. I'm thinking its something goofy about it not being able to see the compressed filesystem. What am I missing?

Kernel config includes ext2, cramfs, loopback, ramdisk, initrd, and more of course, floppy device support of course.

Cheers,

Finegan