On 14 Nov 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote: > 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 > ... i just tried it with v2.4.18. here're the make commands i used (didn't do mrproper because the tree was unpacked straight from the package): cd linux-2.4.18 cp ../config-2.4.18 .config make xconfig make dep make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install the result with 2.4.18 is essentially the same as previously (2.4.19): ... eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:30:48:24:7F:3A, IRQ 18. Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0xb874c1d3). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for Net4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream > 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 Grub configuration (boot, root, root=) should be ok because it's the same as with the Red Hat 8.0 default kernel which boots fine on the system. > 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=/ the reason i'm using the device name and not a label is to try to eliminate potential problems with ambigously defined labels. best regards, -- aspa -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
