Re: Trying to build 2.5.46

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On line 15 and 19, are you sure it is /dev/hde, which means that (correct me if wrong), your
harddisk is 5th ide device on your system. Usually motherboards only have support for 4 ide
device.

Usman
--- Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@gams.at> wrote:
> "Mark Hamblin" <MarkHamblin@cox.net> wrote:
> >13    title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
> >14     root (hd0,0)
> >15     kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hde2
> >16     initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> >17    title Red Hat Linux (2.5.46)
> >18     root (hd0,0)
> >19     kernel /bzImage-2.5.46 ro root=/dev/hde2
> >20     initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> >
> >I added lines 17-20.  Note that I use bzImage instead of vmlinuz.  I'm not
> >sure about that.  I also don't know if I should modify the initrd line.
> 
> Line 20 as of above is definitely wrong. Either you create an initrd
> for your kernel version or (which is probably the simpler thing) is 
> compile all drivers statically into kernel which are necessary to
> mount / (the root filesystem), i.e. usually the IDE or SCSI driver 
> and the filesystem driver (ext2, ext3, or whatever) and delete line 
> 20 from above.
> 
> 	Bernd
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