Hello folks,

I'm running FC5 on kernel 2.6.16.20. I downloaded this kernel from kernel.org,,and was able to compile it and its running quite well.

Now, I downloaded the 2.6.17 source and when I compiled,, the
" make modules" and "make modules_install" is not even taking much time which previously had taken some minutes to finish. After installing the kernel ,when I tried to boot,its showing " kernel panic"

What could be wrong???????

I'm using gcc 4.0, the one that I got with FC5.


Please help me out!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks in advance

Well, could you retype some more info. Did you make menuconfig at all? I guess defconfig now doesn't include some drivers needed for your syste, so you need to tell your kernel to include them.

Yes I first did the make xconfig. I ve selected all those which I had selected for the previous kernel.
" make bzImage" works fine and took some 5 mins to complete


after that ,,, make modules and make modules_install completed in just 1 or 2 minutes. But it never had happened so fast. So somthing is wrong in that,, I think

Well, I prefer nearly-monolithic kernels. By the way, are all the drivers needed to mount / compiled in kernel, not as modules? (whatever Red Hat thinks, it reduces problems) What exactly panic do you get?

not related to programming. moved to Linux - Newbie

yes, be more specific about the error you get, if it's before the mounting of the root filesystem, then you don't have the modules for your IDE/SATA compiled. That's all I can do for now. maybe if you post more info, but I still haven't managed to compile one with the "libata" module existing (for SATA harddisks only).

yes ,,its related to mounting root fs. But my HDD is not SATA.

Let me guess, ext3 or ext2 is in modules. Link them in. Or - maybe - even IDE driver managed to be module. Both happens, both should be tuned.

I don't know if it can help you, but have you made an initrd image? A friend had a kernel that wouldn't work until he made an initrd image... Just thought it could help.