Hi, In my system I am having linux Redhat 5.4 . in that I am having 2.6.18 has the kernel version. I have downloaded the latest linux kernel source code 2.6.32.9 and try to and complie the code with below mentioned steps . after completing all the steps I try to boot with complied kernel but I am hitting the kernel panic. so please let me know if I am missing something in below mentioned steps. Steps: 1> Downloaded the 2..6.32.9 linux kernel code from http://www.kernel.org/ 2> tar -xjvf linux-2.6.32.9.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src 3> make mrproper 4> make menuconfig 5> make 6> make modules 7> make modules_install 8> make install 9> #cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.32.9 ( my system arch is x86_64 uname –m) #cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.32.9 #ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.32.9 /boot/System.map 10> mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.32.9 2.6.32.9 11> vi /boot/grub/menu.lst title Redhat Enterprise linux (2.6.32.9) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.9 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.9 Kernel panic: kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Thanks and Regards, Sandeep -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
