On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 03:08, Marko Asplund wrote: > > i'm having a strange problem trying to boot a custom built 2.4.19 kernel > on a Psyche system. the Red Hat 2.4.18-17.8.0smp kernel works fine on this > system but a custom built kernel fails to mount root device during boot. [snip] what was the order of make commands you used to make the kernel? eg (from the /usr/src/linux-<version> directory) you commands should look something like this make mrproper create a .config file either by make xconfig or cp configs/kernel-<blah>.config ./.config; edit it and then make oldconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install and finally mkinitrd may be necessary. Remember also that the root(hdx,y) directive in grub specifies you /boot partition and the other commands are relative to there, so you don't need to append /boot to them all, and grub counts from 0, not 1. The root=/dev/blah option you pass to the kernel is in normal /dev/hda2 form. It may be easier to label the volume as '/' and then just say root=LABEL=/ Having said all this I know nothing about LVMs and you may know everything I've said already :) Hope this helps, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
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