On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:39, A wrote: > 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: [snip] > 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? Certainly sounds like that. If you didn't alter the config and the old kernel required an initrd, it stands to reason that this one would require one as well. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
