On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Sreeji K Das wrote:
> Hi
>
> do a 'lilo' to install your new kernel. I guess it's still booting from
> the old one.
ummm... shouldnt it, in that case boot cleanly ( may be not if the
system map and the modules were changed ).
> > Kmod: failed to exec /sbin//modprobe -s -k block-major-8;errror-2
> > VFS: cannot open root device 08:01
> > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01
I am not on linux, so cant check on what the -s and -k option means. From
the looks of it I feel an important file system module was removed from
the kernel and not compiled as a module. So it is unable to open that
particular filesystem.
> > I have used make bzImage to make the new image after make dep;
> > make clean. When using the command make zImage it reported
> > too big kernel.
hmmm so no problem of not running make clean....what else...I hope you are
using the bzimage from the .../i386/boot/bzImage and not the one generated
in the /usr/src/linux directory.
see, if these things help
sreangsu
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