Greetings,
I have a RedHat Enterprise 4 system up and running. I
am trying to run a variant of the stock kernel that
comes with this distribution. I performed the
following steps:
- Installed the src rpm (2.6.9)
- Copied the config file from /boot dir to Linux 2.6.9
kernel src dir
- make oldconfig ; make all
- Copied the bzImage and System.map file to the /boot
dir
- In the grub.conf file, duplicated the line that
booted up RH 4, and changed pertinent stuff as
follows:
title 2.6.9-prep
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-prep ro
root=LABEL=/1234 rhgb quiet mem=448M vga=791
Info about my system - a single Xeon motherboard, with
IDE bootup disk.
When I try to boot up this kernel I get something like
the following:
"Kernel panic : not syncing. Kernel unable to mount
file system...."
The only thing I did not do is prepare/insatll a
initrd file. Do I need to do that?
Am I missing some steps? Any help would be very
appreciated. I am attaching my .config file.
Thanks you,
Aha.
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