Hi Check for the correct processor family you have selected during the menuconfig selection What is initrd used for at boot time? initrd provides the capability to load a RAM disk by the boot loader Regards Vanitha ----- Original Message ----- From: "SATHISH.J" <sathish.j@tatainfotech.com> To: "kernelnewbies" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Cc: "linux india programming" <linux-india-programmers@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:21 AM Subject: [LIP] Could not boot from 2.4.8 kernel > Hi, > I downloaded 2.4.8 kernel from "www.kernel.org" and did the regular kernel > make to get the bzImage. Then I tried to boot from the same by altering > the lilo.conf. The booting stops with the message "uncompressing linux > kernel". I did not add initrd path for this new kernel in lilo.conf. Is > it because of that? What is initrd used for at boot time? > > Thanks in advance, > > Warm regards, > Sathish.J > Systems Engineer > Tata Infotech Limited > 80 Feet Road > Indra Nagar > Bangalore-560 038. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-programmers mailing list > linux-india-programmers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-programmers _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
