Many txs for the advice; I used mkinitrd to make a initial ramdisk. I used the command;
/sbin/mkinitrd --fstab /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 to create a file initrd-2.4.21.img When I rebooted to test the kernel, I got the following error; Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. This I understand is a typical newbie compile error, but was preceded a couple of statements; RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ** ** ** mounting root filesystem mount: missing root filesystem The howto kernel compile discusses these errors with LILO and I am using grub, so I could not find a way to solve it. I punched in c at the grub command line and was able to boot the kernel manually, but not with grub. My grub.conf is exactly like the suggestions in a reply to my earlier post and is copied below. ****************************************grub.conf********************************************* # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=2 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Pasco Linux (2.4.21) root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage.pasco ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.21.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img **************************************************************************************************** any suggestions for me to fix this? Regards, G > > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:39, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:35:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Do you think that you could advise? > > > > Yes. > > > > > 11. Reboot and check new kernel is booting > > > > > > > > > At this point the boot says booting Pasco Linux and stops with error 15: > > > cannot find file. > > > > > I have attached my grub.conf and also the contents of by /boot directory. > > > > > > Any suggestions to get me up and going? > > > > Don't change config files unless you know what you're doing. You > > should have used the existing boot menu entry as a template for your > > new entry: > > > > > title Pasco Linux (2.4.21) > > > root (hd0,0) > > > kernel /boot/bzImage.pasco ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi > > > initrd /initrd-2.4.21.img > > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > > > root (hd0,0) > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi > > > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > > > (hd0,0) is your /boot-partition. On that partition, the path > > to your kernel image is /bzImage.pasco, NOT /boot/bzImage.pasco > > Hence your entry should be: > > > > title Pasco Linux (2.4.21) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /bzImage.pasco ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi > > initrd /initrd-2.4.21.img > > > > - -- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/DDca0iMVcrivHFQRArSQAKCGIQFdiSSuJJ/v8kMETEDGVu++9gCfee4b > > tOvsuF0zaDSS2SLCZic4Qok= > > =jUhc > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > ________________________________________________________________________ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
