Marv and all, I think I have found out my mistake, I did not compile ext4 support for the kernel, ran again menuconfig and selected that option. after running make all, make modules_install and make all, I will report back hopefully with a working kernel on Fedora 10 x86_64. Regards, Antonio On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marv, > > I downloaded and compiled kernel 2.6.27.8, but it does not boot :( > It gives me error message: > > mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext4: No such device > > I do not know how to overcome it as, the machine I use ext4 > filesystem. I booted to a newer Fedora kernel, only to find out later > that it would oops also: > > http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=138190 > > It died with usb_serial problem. I used an external serial/usb modem > to connect to internet with Fedora because it is x86_64. I will await > a newer kernel or a suggestion(s) to ge the ext4 issue with the > compiled kernel to see if it remedies the issue. Otherwise I'll > pleasantly surf with Slax since it gets the job done :) > > Regards, > > Antonio > > On 12/13/08, Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Antonio >> >> Quite likely you could add the Slax kernel+modules set to the Fedora >> installation >> >> MarvS >> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Antonio Olivares >> <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am running Slax to access the smartlink modem >>> >>> Have a slax module ready >>> >>> http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=1037 >>> >>> Have fedora 10 x86_64 installed, but modem not available unless I boot >>> a 32 bit kernel, but I am having troubles with Fedora freezing so Slax >>> is my lifesaver. >>> >>> Just FYI. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Antonio >>> >> >
