On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:34 -0500
Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not. What is the procedure for doing this, and what exactly
does it accomplish?
Thanks
# cp /wherever/old/.config /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make oldconfig
this prompts only for new or changed
On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote:
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0)
Please append a correct root= boot option.
Here are the available partitions
run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir.
check to ensure ext3 is compiled
On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote:
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB
drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel
still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive
at
sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics
(probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb).
that's very odd that there is a sda
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does
at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't
work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can
use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from?
I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel
I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed kernel,
then recompiled.
The grub line which works for the 2.6.17-r8 kernel is:
# For booting GNU/Linux
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,4)
kernel
Jeff Cranmer ha scritto:
I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel
I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed kernel,
then recompiled.
[...]
Can anyone point me in the direction of why the new kernel will not boot,
while the old one boots fine?
On Sunday 18 November 2007 03:42:53 pm b.n. wrote:
Jeff Cranmer ha scritto:
I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel
I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed
kernel, then recompiled.
[...]
Can anyone point me in the direction of why the new
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0)
Please append a correct root= boot option.
Here are the available partitions
run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir.
check to ensure ext3 is compiled in. (not sure why it wouldn't be)
check to make sure you've
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