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Scott Baker
bakers at web-ster.com
Mon Oct 20 21:20:15 UTC 2003
I didn't even think to change that, I figured it was too simple. As soon
as I did that the machine boots fine with 2.6.0-test8. Woohoo!
However, that doesn't explain why I can't make an initrd file, which I'd
like to know just for my own edumacation. Here are the steps I took.
#1) Download source from kernel.org
#2) Uncompress
#3) make menuconfig
#4) save config
#5) make modules && make modules install
#6) make bzImage
#7) copy resulting bzImage to /boot
#8) Edit grub.conf and reboot
At that point I got the error below and attempted to make an initrd file
and I was getting those errors about a missing dep file. I have
<http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/mkinitrd-3.5.7-2.i386.rpm>mkinitrd-3.5.7-2
installed which should be plenty current. Why is it complaining about a
missing dep file?
Scott
> Scott Baker wrote:
> > I downloaded the source for Kernel 2.6.0 test8 and I'm able to compile
and
> > get a kernel out of the deal but when I reboot I get a "cannot open root
> > device label=/"
>
> Did you download kernel-2.6.0-test8 from kernel.org or do you use
> (Source-)RPMs from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ ?
you can't boot via label in the /etc/fstab file if you don't
have an initrd file. simple as that.
rday
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