Re: Kernel panic on Dell with Debian

[Luiz Felipe <luiz@grupocarvalho.com.br>]

David Bishop wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:52:41PM -0300, Luiz Felipe wrote:
>   
> > After successfully installed, the system doesn't have support to 
> > iptables. So, recompiled the kernel and was expecting to work.
> >     
>
> I find it very odd that it didn't support iptables out of the box.  Are
> you sure you didn't need to just run modprobe or insmod?  
Yes, and I saw people with the same problem (but not able to solve)
> Can you still boot the old kernel?
>   
Yes, using the boot CD-ROM that i burnt.

The problem, I think, is associated with initrd. I can't make a kernel with initrd. The mkinitrd command doesn't generate any output file


Regards, 
Luiz Felipe de Souza Gomes