On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:24:21AM +0530, rony wrote:
I just compiled the latest kernel 2.6.16.11 from source
I boot into the new kernel, after a series of initial text, it gives a kernel panic at the root= entry. Its the same as before so why can't it mount the VFS on that partition? It cannot recognise hdan. (n is a number)
Thanks to everyone who provided their inputs on this problem. It is not solved yet but now I created another problem so I guess the menuconfig will need a very detailed observation. Last time I had used the make menuconfig, clean, modules as well as modules_install so that was not a problem. The problem I feel is that by default the kernel supports ext3 journaling through module '<M>' instead of '<*>' so it gives an error of not recognising block (0,0) and cannot mount the fs on root=/dev/hdax. However even after setting it embedded, the new kernel now does not even go till the initial bootup messages. While repeating the process of 'make' I have got a lot of errors during compilation so I will do a clean retry and give feedback.
BG's suggestion of 'kernel-package' and the make-kpkg..... command was very usefull and I use that now. More feedback after some more results.
Regards,
Rony.
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