Re:kernel boot failure

[mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com>]

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