Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-10-03 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Andrew Perrin cli...@perrin.socsci.unc.edu wrote: Appreciate all the replies. However I have never used an initrd in the past (been building kernels since the 2.0.x series) and don't want to this time. sata and ext3 drivers are built into the kernel (not modules) so I don't think I should

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Appreciate all the replies. However I have never used an initrd in the past (been building kernels since the 2.0.x series) and don't want to this time. sata and ext3 drivers are built into the kernel (not modules) so I don't think I should need one. Any thoughts as to why I apparently do, or

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread mess-mate
Andrew Perrin wrote: Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done with it. In this case I keep getting: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Andrew Perrin cli...@perrin.socsci.unc.edu wrote: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0). Have you tried actually building an initrd? I always get a problem mounting root until I build my initrd. (man mkinitramfs, or just `mkinitramfs -o

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd image which isn't mentioned in grub.cfg. Elimar

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread thveillon.debian
Arthur Marsh wrote: Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Sep 26 2009, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an