But the DOpE window is opened? And is there something in the window?
The DOpE window doesn't appear (while I use the ".config" given from you). The cause of it is not clear...
I have no clear idea right now what could be wrong. Could you post your .config, that you are using right now, again?
The attached configuration is used right now, which uses the DOpE. The kernel configuration file and the GRUB menu are the following.
[config] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- verbose 0 task "vmlinuz26" "earlyprintk=yes console=ttyLv0 mem=256M video=l4fb root=/dev/hda1" all_sects_writable allow_vga ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[menu.lst] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- title L4Linux2.6/Fiasco (DOpE) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/L4Linux/bootstrap modaddr 0x06000000 module /boot/L4Linux/fiasco -nowait -nokdb -serial_esc -comspeed 115200 -comport 1 module /boot/L4Linux/sigma0 module /boot/L4Linux/roottask task modname "bmodfs" attached 4 modules module /boot/L4Linux/names module /boot/L4Linux/log module /boot/L4Linux/dm_phys module /boot/L4Linux/simple_ts -t 300 module /boot/L4Linux/rtc module /boot/L4Linux/l4io --noirq module /boot/L4Linux/bmodfs module /boot/L4Linux/vmlinuz26 module /boot/L4Linux/config module /boot/L4Linux/libloader.s.so module /boot/L4Linux/libld-l4.s.so module /boot/L4Linux/l4dope --l4io module /boot/L4Linux/loader --fprov=BMODFS config vbeset 0x117 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You could also try to disable PCI just for a test and see if it gets to the point where Linux wants to mount the root partition and can't because no driver is there. Maybe making earlyprintk to earlyprintk=keep makes a difference too.
I disabled PCI and retried, but the setup stops at the same line (some PCI related messages disappear). And it seem that the sequence doesn't come to the step of mounting root partition yet because the results are the same though I change the "root=..." value.
Regards, Lin