Custom kernel - init freezes

[Hubert Talbot]

Hi,

I picked up linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 from www.kernel.org.

The computer is Processor  2x intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz and
Debian is testing.

I did the following steps on another computer (x86_64) and it worked well
but not on P4.

here the steps:

        # cd /usr/src
        # tar xjf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz
        # rm -rf linux
        # ln -s linux-2.6.23 linux
        # make clean    
        # make mrproper
        # cp /boot/config-2.6.22.3-686 .config
        # make menuconfig
        (changed nothing)
        # make-kpkg clean
        # make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -test kernel_image
        # cd /usr/src
        # dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.23-test_2.6.23-test-10.00.Custum_i386.deb
        # and reboot...

At the boot:

        Loading, please wait...

and it freezes.


After putting some echos in /usr/share/initramsfs-tools/scripts/local, I see
that the process is looping in mountroot at:

        slumber=$(( ${slumber} * 10 ))
        while [ ! -e "${ROOT}" ] \
        || ! get_fstype "${ROOT}" >/dev/null); do
                /bin/sleep 0.1
                slumber=$(( ${slumber}  - 1 ))
                [ ${slumber} -gt 0 ] || break
        done

Please, could you help me?

Hubert