On  1-Feb-99 at 14:37, Neil Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Thomas Gamble wrote:
> > 
> > I recently tried compiling my 2.0.36 kernal for smp and got the following
> > errors when trying to boot:
...
> At a wild guess, looks like your initial ramdisk (initrd) is out of
> date.  I forget how to rebuild it automatically (since I usually end up
> doing it by hand) but I'm sure you can figure it out (the initrd is an
> ext2 disk image which you can mount using the loopback option and it's
> probably gzipped too, can't remember).

Indeed, I have similar hardware. After make modules_install do

  mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.xx.yy.img 2.xx.yy

but before, at the kernel config, make sure to set 
ramdisk support and initial ramdisk support.  


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