Hi, This time I got sbin/init activated and everything went smoothly till "swapon can not swapon /dev/hda6 no such file or directory" after that "INIT: id 1 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" "INIT: id 2 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" "INIT: id 3 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" "INIT: id 4 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" "INIT: id 5 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" "INIT: id 6 resopaning too fast: disabled for 5 min" and trying to open GUI and failing andhanging afetr the above display.... my /etc/fstab looks like [root@krishna root]# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Thank you, harsha -----Original Message----- From: ZHAO Wei <zhaoway@public1.ptt.js.cn> To: hvalap2@uky.edu, kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 06:52:29 +0800 Subject: Re: kernel compile help Paste your .config here. Check if you have mounted the correct root filesystem. If you have elf compiled in. Hmm, I think I don't know much more. 8) But it does sound like that you forgot to compile in some critical components. Harsha Vardhana Rao Alapati wrote: > Hi, > Yes I can boot 2.4.18-14 but 2.4.20 which is compileds by myself is not working. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ZHAO Wei <zhaoway@public1.ptt.js.cn> > To: hvalap2@uky.edu > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 17:26:55 +0800 > Subject: Re: kernel compile help > > Are you sure that your system could boot with just another kernel image? > > Harsha Vardhana Rao Alapati wrote: > >> Hi, >> Yup I do feel the same...but what went wrong..why the init is not activated..is there any specific error in config. >> >> Thanx in advance, > > > > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/