Dear Slug, I am running sarge, and I have compiled a new kernel (2.6.8).
make xconfig make bzImage make modules make modules_install then copied System.map, bzImage to /boot, When I tried to make the initrd.img I got some errors: server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.8 2.6.8 cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory And when I try to boot this kernel with this initrd I get a kernel panic: RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1168 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk..done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed initrd-tools:0.1.71 pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! >From /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 savedefault boot I have tried booting without the initrd line in menu.lst (above), which I thought should work since I have ext3 support into the kernel ( server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# less .config |grep -i ext3 CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set ) rather than as a module, but I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) but I don't see whats wrong with "root=/dev/hda1". See mount output below. server1:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8# mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) Any help appreciated. Kind Regards, Joshua Burvill Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
