kernel compile in suse-9.3?
 

i have compile kernel in suse-9.3 but when i boot im getting this Waiting for device /dev/hdb5 to appear:........ not found -- exiting to /bin/sh. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off.

any idea what that means?

thnx.

Sounds like a problem with the drive recognition. Maybe you didn't include the driver for your HDD controller into your kernel (or initrd). It could also be a udev problem (udev update?).

im not quite sure about the driver for hdd controller. you see i compiled the filesystem directly into the kernel in that case i think i don't need an initrd am i rite? and for the udev it already uptodate. so what else could be the problem? any suse specific setting that i need to enable during kernel compile?

thnx.

But the filesystem is not all you may need. On S-ATA systems for example, you need the specific driver and parts of the SCSI subsystem as well. I don't know your configuration, so I can't tell you what is required. An indicator for required drivers is the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel. If there are modules listed to be included in initrd, you need to make sure that they are present.
As far as I know (and I compiled several kernel so far), there is no SUSE specific setting.