Re: rolling a kernel for a different machine
Andrew Dixon <andrew_dwight_dixon@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi All,
> sorry for posting this to this list as it isn't a
> development question but no one on the debian-user or
> debian-laptop lists seemed to know.
>
> I'm trying to build a kernel for my laptop (Sony Vaio
> F250) on my desktop machine. I tried the following:
>
> #make config
> ...
> #make dep
> #make clean
> #make bzdisk
>
> then tried to start my laptop with the boot disk.
> It goes smoothly through the partition check at which
> point I get the error:
>
> Invalid session number or type of track
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> 03:01
>
> This boot disk will, however, boot the desktop machine
> without a hitch.
Sounds like perhaps you don't have ramdisk or loopfs support perhaps,
in that kernel?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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