the initrd image was prepared by make itself and added in the grub.conf for the custom kernel :( I don't know. Probably it's a make xconf misuse On νδ, 2002-11-17 at 09:09, Ravi wrote: > > > > > I did the compilation on RedHat 8.0 using the distro provided kernel > > sources in /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14 under root account with the > > following comands: > > > > make xconfig > > make dep > > make clean > > make bzImage > > make modules > > make modules_install > > make install > > You also need to build the initial ramdisk image, unless you built all > required > drivers into the kernel. Check 'man mkinitrd' for details. > > -Ravi. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/