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Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?



Did you add initrd=/boot/initrd<name> to lilo.conf. 
That should be the first line after default=Linux. 
--- Timothy Webster <tdwebste@netcentricnj.com> wrote:
> Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine.
> 
> Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6.
> cp /boot/config-2.4.12-k6
> /var/state/kernellab/config/config-`uname -n`-2.4.12
> create a new kernel
> install it
> added ext2 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> use mkinitrd
> 
> Everything should be good, right?
> 
> I can not boot with this new kernel
> 
> ======================================
> Ramdisk: Couldn't find vaild RAM disk image starting
> at 0.
> Freeing initrd memory: 2204k freed
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
> 
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