Hi Rob... This time, seems like we're connected through Inception-alike dream machine. Could you please spin your totem first? :) On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 19:43, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but: > > * "make install" blows up, complaining about multiple missing > modules, not sure what that's all about I experience same thing too in CentOS 5.5 when I tried to boot freshly "make defconfig" 2.6.35 kernel. AFAIK, making some kernel components as modules did fix the complains during mkinitrd (such as ahci, ohci and so on). This is something that might provide you hint: I turn back to 2.6.28...and then do "make allmodconfig". mkinitrd as usual....edit grub.conf and kazaaammmm it sucessfully boot. Perhaps I could do the same thing by carefully use --builtin when executing mkinitrd, but I was too lazy at that time to check deeper. > also, i tried to use the RHEL-supplied config file as a starting point > with "make oldconfig", which let me install but fails to boot, > complaining about not finding the root device. Exactly the same message I saw too when booting 2.6.35. AFAIK, I check the initrd image and to the best I can did, I saw no reference to "/dev/root" in the scripts in initrd...thus...it might be something in the kernel itself...(I am not sure if Linux begins to execute sysinit script in rc directory at this stage..) -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
