On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. > Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I > did: > 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link
yeah, that won't work - gunzip it first. > 2.-) make oldconfig > 3.-) make all && make modules_install make all modules_install install > 4.-) mkinitrd initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 why not compile everything needed for boot into the kernel? you could skip this step?. > 5.-) Edited menu.lst (just copied genkernel entry and modified to my > new bzimage and initram files) menu.lst with vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old is all what you need, when you use make install and don't use an initrd. > > but my new kernel did not start, and gave me a kernel panic... what type of panic? root fs not found? > > So I wonder what differences could be between my compilation and > genkernel one... I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
