Either I found something, or it just works for me. My procedure is as follows: make mrproper make distclean make xconfig& (to keep the shell open) make dep bzImage modules modules_install make install lilo Then I do a dd of the boot sector which is alias in my bash like this: alias ddlilo='dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/c_dos/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1' The 'make install' copies the System.map, the vmlinux, the initrd and every thing for you. I also edit the makefile to give the build a extention that I can track. It works for me ever since RH 7.2 Garf On Sunday 13 October 2002 20:51 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. > > -Brandon
