After a little work (and a lot of learning) I was finally able to custom configure my kernel, make the dependences and make the image. Whne I reboot my computer, Grub lists my custom kernel as an option, but when I try to boot it, I get the following:

VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

Unfortunately, I don't know how to 'append a correct "root="'.

Can anyone please inform me how to do this so I can finally get say I've sucessfully recompiled my kernel. Thanks.

Running kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0 using RedHat8.0

Bryan

What does your /boot/grub/grub.conf look like?

-K.

default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0custom)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0custom ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0custom.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Win2K
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

And what does the contents of /boot look like? What files are there?

-K.

/boot contains the following:

boot.b os2_d.b
chain.b System.map
config-2.4.18-14 System.map-2.4.18-14
config-2.4.18-18.8.0 System.map-2.4.18-18.8.0
grub System.map-2.4.18-18.8.0custom
initrd-2.4.18-14.img System.map-2.4.18-18.8.0custom.old
initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0custom.img vmlinux-2.4.18-14
initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img vmlinux-2.4.18-18.8.0
kernel.h vmlinuz
lost+found vmlinuz-
message vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
message.ja vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0
module-info vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0custom
module-info-2.4.18-14 vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0custom.old
module-info-2.4.18-18.8.0

try changing the "root=LABEL=/" to "root=/dev/hdc1" or whatever your root partition is?

Dunno,

-K.

I found this sample on
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...dBootDisk.html

and like Kevin said, you should fille in your root partition.
you could try /dev/hd0 for root. You should know your own root partition ;-)

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz - Image to be displayed: /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz which is on the second hard drive, first partition.
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-21)
root (hd1,0) - Root of GRUB reference. Same as /boot. See above table.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-21 ro root=/dev/sdb6
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-21.img - Referenced from GRUB root reference. Hence file: /boot/initrd-2.4.9-21.img