I only had a very small partition for linux (7 or 8 GB, I think but I have a load of junk I didn't need as well) and the kernels I'd been compiling had filled it up. I deleted a few old ones and tried to modify grub.conf to correspond and I'm not sure it ended up right. I finished building the 2.6.11.8 kernel and assumed that the make install would fix any mistakes. The kew kernel seems to boot (I'm using it now), but there's some extra messages that are normally only shown if I didn't shut down properly and there seem to be some extra files in the root directory that weren't there before; random files/folders from elsewhere on the file system. Maybe I'm imagining things but perhaps someone would notice if something was wrong with the grub file. Or maybe it's just some new features that have been added. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,4) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.11.8) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11.8.img title Fedora Core (2.6.9-AMF-1) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-AMF-1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-AMF-1.img title Fedora Core (2.6.9-prep) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-prep ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-prep.img title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
