Re:kernel boot failure
Did you include support in your kernel for whichever SCSI controller you
have (or setup the initrd) and SCSI disks?
--rdp
On 24 Feb 2003, mel kravitz wrote:
> Joakim Roubert wisely said..
> > > gzip -9 vmlinux, cp vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> >
> > Don't do this.
> > Use the /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz instead.
> > There are some specific things made when compressing the kernel, that
> is
> > already made during the kernel compile.
> > Simply copy this compressed file to your boot and try again. Should
> work
> > much better.
> >
> > /Joakim
> i 'fixed'('make boot' rather than 'make' ) then i copied:
> /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.20
> and /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> with an ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 vmlinuz-2.4.20 in /.
> /etc/about.conf lines now read:
> 0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda1
> 1:1/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/sda1
> rebooting stops with:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 08:01
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> kernel panic : VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01 ???
> -Mel
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Rich Payne
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