Building latest kernel on FC7

john wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 12 04:23:16 UTC 2009


JD wrote:
> I have built kernel 2.6.28.2 on my FC7 machine,
> but I cannot boot it. It panics very
> very early in the boot.
> Is there a dep I am missing? If so, shouldn't
> the build belch out some message about it?
> 

Hard to diagnose without seeing the boot output. Maybe a problem with 
your initial ramdisk or the disk driver. Try building a minimal kernel 
with all the drivers builtin (no modules).

It might help to attach your .config, someone might spot a problem.

Regards,

John




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