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Originally posted by ironwalker
vanilla sources are the basic debian kernel source files.
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what do you mean ? that,having an ubuntu or debian distr, i can avoid to compile a new kernel if the only thing i want is to have a vanilla kernel
running on my desktop?
Anyway, i succeeded in compiling: my error was stupid: i built my initrd image typing:
'mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.13.3' instead of 'mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.13.3 2.6.13.3'
if the version parameter is omitted, mkinitrd automatically take the running kernel's one as the parameter.
i apologize sayng that 'mkinitrd -h' does not talk about the optional version parameter at all.
Anyway tring to boot the new kernel with my Debian root (well i have both a 2.6 kernel Ubuntu and a 2.4 kernel debian distribution)
filesystem i had another kernel panic:
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umount: devfs: not mounted
mount: unknown file system type 'devfs'
pivot_root no such file or directory
/sbin/init cannot open dev/console
Kernel panic not syncing: kill init
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it should be due to the difference between the two kernels: 2.4 uses devfs and 2.6 udev.