On 15 Nov 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:49, Marko Asplund wrote: > > heres the first problem I see. If you copy a config file fron configs/ > and then run xconfig, it will overwrite it :) You either need to > 1. copy the config file (and don't run any make config command) but > continue with dep > 2. don't copy the config file, but run 'make xconfig' and choose 'load > configuration from file' as your first operation, then choose a file > from configs/ > 3. copy a config from somewhere else (eg /boot/config<blah>) or an older > version of your own config file and then run 'make oldconfig' > > This may have caused some problems if you thought some options should > have been selected, but were overwritten... i just rebuilt the kernel using the following procedure: make mrproper make xconfig # loaded configuration from file make dep make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install but the result is still the same and the kernel is unable to mount the root filesystem. > ... > once you've tried the make again, see if you still get this problem. > Short of posting your whole .config file, did you compile in scsi or > compile the module? (I think you said this in a previous post but I > forgot :) the root filesystem is on a Mylex AcceleRAID RAID array and the driver is enabled in kernel config (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960=y). LVM, ext2 and ext3 are also enabled. all of these are statically built into the kernel. > ... > On a tangent, try entering 'e' when grub loads (I think its e for edit), > and then manually edit the commands. Delete a few characters of, say, > 'kernel /vmlinuz-blah' until you're back to just 'kernel /vmlinuz' and > then push tab a couple of times. If it doesn't autocomplete or at least > give you some options of autocompletion, then something more serious may > be wrong... i'm unable to do this because Grub can't do filename completion on the RAID array disks. when i give the command 'root (hd0,1)' Grub complains: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82. thanks, best regards, -- aspa -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
