-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 October 2002 08:51 pm, Brandon Dorman wrote: > Hello, > > I recently compiled the 2.4.19 kernel with the following commands: (i > just changed the numbers to .19 instead of .17) > > tar jxvf linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2 > mv linux linux-2.4.17 > make menuconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /vmlinuz-2.4.17 > cp /vmlinuz-2.4.17 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 > open up /etc/lilo.conf, point it to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 > > I might have missed something somewhere in the kernel configuration > options, but upon boot it says, "kernel panic, cannot mount root > partition." Did I miss a step or copy something wrong? Thanks. You didn't create an initrd.img, which you most likely need. If your root partition is ext3, and ext3 kernel support is modular, you need an initrd.img to load the ext3 modules. man mkinitrd for details on creation. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qhyun/07WoAb/SsRAlOhAKCtzVn+XbjRGXCwV9pro1vBZ4T+bQCghADP OgXjyzmu67M7qrYJ9Tz9Qek= =xh2M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
