Thanks, Rob. Actually, I did make the initrd after building the kernel (and I included the appropriate reference to initrd in my kboot.conf). Have you ever done the kernel build on YDL?
Warren On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Sanders, Rob M. wrote: > Warren, > I've done the hugetbl/hugepages mods a couple of times on a PS3 > without > having any problems. The last time was with Fedora 7 (needed to > play with > SDK3.0). I didn't use the kernel from the cell addon, but one from > Geoff's > page (don't have the link handy, but should be google-able [is that > a word?]). > Did you make a new initrd image from your new kernel? It sounded > like you > didn't from your email. I don't know if that would make a huge > difference or > not, I don't normally make an initrd when booting my G5, but it > seems most > of the x86 distro's I've used and the PS3 use it. > > Rob > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > behalf of Warren Nagourney > Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 10:53 PM > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > Subject: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > For a number of reasons, I have gone into the kernel hacking business > in YDL 5.02 on a PS3 and started by taking the 2.6.23 kernel (from > the most recent CELL linux ADDON iso) and compiling it, following the > instructions in the Cell Performance article on making huge pages. I > made the appropriate changes in the kboot.conf file to reflect the > new kernel and tried to boot. SInce this is my first attempt at > kernel manufacture, I was not surprised that it didn't work: I got an > error message "switchroot: mount failed" and a kernel panic. > > I looked at the init file in the initrd image and compared it to the > one in the initrd for a working kernel: they were identical (not > surprising, since the same mkinitrd was probably used for both). Does > anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. > > Warren Nagourney > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > <winmail.dat> > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
