Custom kernel - init freezes

["Hubert Talbot" <Hubert.Talbot@criq.qc.ca>]

Hi,

I picked up linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 from www.kernel.org.

The computer is Processor  2x intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz and
Debian is testing.

I did the following steps on another computer (x86_64) and it worked well
but not on P4.

here the steps:

	# cd /usr/src
	# tar xjf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz
	# rm -rf linux
	# ln -s linux-2.6.23 linux
	# make clean	
	# make mrproper
	# cp /boot/config-2.6.22.3-686 .config
	# make menuconfig
	(changed nothing)
	# make-kpkg clean
	# make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -test kernel_image
	# cd /usr/src
	# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.23-test_2.6.23-test-10.00.Custum_i386.deb
	# and reboot...

At the boot:

	Loading, please wait...

and it freezes.


After putting some echos in /usr/share/initramsfs-tools/scripts/local, I see
that the process is looping in mountroot at:

	slumber=$(( ${slumber} * 10 ))
	while [ ! -e "${ROOT}" ] \
	|| ! get_fstype "${ROOT}" >/dev/null); do
		/bin/sleep 0.1
		slumber=$(( ${slumber}  - 1 ))
		[ ${slumber} -gt 0 ] || break
	done

Please, could you help me?

Hubert