Help building the kernel???

[John Wendel]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> 
> 
>>FC3 comes stock with the 2.6.9 kernel.  I downloaded the sources for the
>>2.6.14 kernel and copied the config files from /boot and remade it.
>>Upon bootup, I get the following messages:
>>
>>Mounting sysfs
>>Creating /dev
>>Starting udev
>>Creating root device
>>Mounting root filesystem
>>Mount: error 19 mounting ext3
>>Mount: error mounting none
>>Switching to new root
>>Switchroot: mount failed: 22
>>Umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>>
>>The system is a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with a stock 'everything' install of
>>FC3 using an ext3 filesystem on a 160Gb drive with 1g for /boot, 2g for
>>swap and the rest as slash.
>>
>>What am I missing (besides my mind)????
>>
>>TIA,
> 
> 
> I tried compiling a vanilla kernel on FC3...didn't work.  I'm no expert, but
> it seems like all those patches Redhat made to their FC kernels are
> necessary.  Anyways, here are my instructions for recompiling a FC kernel:
> http://cjbottaro.speedpost.net/rebuild_kernel_fc3
> 
> Note that it uses `uname -r` a lot.  You can replace that with whatever FC
> kernel is available to you.  You can see a list here:
> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/SRPMS
> 
> 
>>-brian
> 
> 
> -- Christopher
> 

Just to add to the confusion, I have 2 FC3 boxes that run with vanilla 
kernels, so the Redhat patches are not required. But I can't get a 
vanilla kernel working on an FC4 box.

What does your grub.conf file look like?

Regards,

John