On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 20:51, 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. If your /boot partition is ext3 or reiserfs, you missed the mkinitrd step. LILO can't access the kernel on a journaling file system so it needs help, that where the initial ramdisk (initrd) comes in. man mkinitrd Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Life's the same, except for my shoes Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
