next up: trying to build/boot a 2.6.0-test[x] kernel

[Mike Martin]

 --- Milan Kerslager <milan.kerslager at pslib.cz> wrote: > On Thu, Jul
31, 2003 at 12:48:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:57:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >   based (loosely) on my 2.4 kernel config file, i've built
> both
> > > > a 2.6.0-test1 and 2.6.0-test2 kernel, and tried to boot both
> of
> > > > them.
> > > 
> > > Try http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
> > > 
> > > Use precompiled or grab .config from kernel-source package and
> try to
> > > modify this one (at lest to do not forget something).
> > 
> > depressingly, that worked.  which means i have no idea what was
> > the problem with building from the original source.  but it's
> late,

Just to check which one of these worked.

I know just before I upgraded to severn I had major aggro getting
stock 2.5/2.6 to boot, but when I built from arjanv's source
everything worked. Bizarrely after I installed this kernel, stock
kernel source compiled and booted.

> > and i'm not going to fret at this point.
> 
> This message is near the point where the kernel is trying to run a
> program from initrd image or from your root partition (mounted
> under /).
> So there is where the possible investigation could start.
> 
> You may try to make a diff between the two .config files to see
> what is
> different.
> 
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