Custom Kernel 2.4.27 install problems (sarge)
following my bigmem problems (see: "Sarge + 1GB How?") I installed the packages kernel-package and kernel-source-2.4.27 and attempted to re-compile the kernel, I used
make menuconfig and turned the bigmem 4GB option on and then did make-kpkg kernel_image in the kernel source tree it built ok and provided me with a .deb file of the new kernel image which I installed with a dpkg -i packagename.deb which updated grub's menu.lst for me. Rebooted the system and selected the new kernel option from the boot menu and it kernel panicked complaining that I need to append a "root=/" option to the kernel but the the thing is that it already has the appropriate root=/dev/md0 option according to grub. Where did I go wrong? apart from the names the only other difference I can see to the previous kernel boot option (which still works fine) is that the old one has an initrd line pointing to an initrd.img file (no corresponding line nor .img file appears to exist for the new version) what have I done wrong/missed out? I've built a custom kernel before but didnt use kernel-package to do it and I was using LILO as a boot loader then as well so I'm in new territory... |
Try re-compiling again with an initrd. Do
Code:
cd /usr/src/linux |
yeppers - that solved it :)
should have guessed that one really, am booting from software RAID so without an initrd image I wouldnt be going very far would i? :) |
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