Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-25 Thread James Foster
Try turning off the CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED option, if you happen to have that on. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:39:53 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot > from it, after lots of messages, I get the following > mess

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-25 Thread Joris Huizer
George Roman wrote: than i don't know what it is. sorry. have you tried other kernel versions before 2.6.3? make sure that you didn't use module in front of ext2. if you did so, install module-init-tools or use builtin option. if you did so, there is nothing elese i could help. Also check that your

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread George Roman
than i don't know what it is. sorry. have you tried other kernel versions before 2.6.3? make sure that you didn't use module in front of ext2. if you did so, install module-init-tools or use builtin option. if you did so, there is nothing elese i could help. George Roman Technical Support RDS Ti

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I have seen this error when in-compatible/correct options chosen during config. So, bite the bullet and redo the kernel compliation from scratch! -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Urs Schroffeneger
Check out that you have the right partition type enabled in Advanced partion types, it's a bit hidden in the options tree. (under xconfig filesystem->partition types->advanced partition types->pc bios) For a pc type, it would be the MSDOS_PARTITION option. It's absolutely necessary for the kerne

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
--- Stelian Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out that the fs that the root partition has is > NOT build as a > module for the kernel, but in the kernel itself. The root filesystem is the ext2 filesystem and it is build in the kernel. I use xconfig to configure and I clearly remembers that

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified > > the corect root > > partition. > > The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has > this entry in a

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
--- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified > the corect root > partition. The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has this entry in a common area immediately after the boot= entry. So without this entry it should also work. But

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread George Roman
i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified the corect root partition. to identify the root partition you cand use the "df" command and search for the "/" partition. thet is the one you should use as root. if you use lilo try to edit lilo.conf and add the folowing line under the image yo

Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
Hi, I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot from it, after lots of messages, I get the following message and system gets into hung state. However, if I choose the old 2.2.20 kernel of woody 3.0r2 it boots fine. I followed the normal steps of compiling the kernel. make xconfig make dep