This was the first time I built a custom kernel so I went from the same configuration that my current installed system used for these options. Say I didn't want to rely on the make install procedure... How would I rebuild the initrd properly. This is the process I followed. make clean make mrproper make menuconfig make make bzImage make modules make modules_install
copy bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot to /boot edit the grub.conf file by copying the previous entries and making a new entry and changing the vmlinuz kernel pointer to the new bzImage filename. What is missing? How do i do the initrd setup? -----Original Message----- From: Nick Lindsell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Custom Kernel wont boot At 06:19 17/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I compiled module support for ext3 which is the filesystem I use. I did not >rebuild initrd with mkinitrd but I thought that the make install did that >for me. Is this not correct? Hmm - not sure if "make install" does rebuild initrd. That's not a standard feature so unless RedHat tweaked the Makefile then I don't suppose it will. Personally I build my kernels with hardwired support for the root filesystem and whatever hardware i need (eg scsi raid controller) to access said filesystem. Some say this is best others not..... YMMV. hih nick@nexnix >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Lindsell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:18 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Custom Kernel wont boot > > >At 06:00 17/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >I have Red Hat 8 setup with all the kernel-devel packages installed. I >just > >downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel and attempted to configure it. After I do >setup > >everything I rebooted. I am currently using the Grub boot manager and when >I > >boot it gives me the following error: > >'Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > >Please append a correct "root=" boot option > >Kernel panic: VFS: > >Unable to mount root on 00:00' > > > >I did a make install to add the line into the grub.conf file but this error > >still occurs. Any ideas? > >Did you build the relevant root filesystem support into the kernel or make >it >as a module and rebuilt initrd? > > >hih >nick@nexnix > > > >Michael > > > > > > > >-- > >redhat-list mailing list > >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
