On Saturday 16 April 2005 13:06, Louai Al-Awami wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to run it on RH9. I started from the source of Linux 2.4.24 and > was able to do that successfully. > > But when it comes to patching the host kernel ( RH9 2.4.20-8) with skas3 > patch to have some performance post, the kernel recompilation does not > succeed. Hmm, applying the SKAS patch to a so "non-vanilla" kernel is not a very good idea.
> At boot time, I got a message telling that > > " Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic:...... " > > I tried to follow many tutorials on the web for kernel recompilation. > What I did is the follwoing: > - Made a copy of the source kernel > > - patch it. > - make xconfig (I did not make any change , I could not find proc/mm > though) > - make dep > - make clean > - make bzImage > - make modules > - make modules_install > - copy bzImage to /boot/vmlinux-????.img > - mkinitrd > - modify the grub.conf Post the added item. Probably you did an error while adding the new kernel, which complains that you didn't pass it the "root=" parameter or that it hadn't a reasonable value. > -restart > > I got error at boot time. > > > Any directions??? -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
