Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz
>>"Paul" == Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net> writes:
Paul> I've successfully installed several kernel's in the past using your
Paul> (excellent) README file, but I've just spent 3 days unsuccessfully
Paul> trying to boot from a newly compiled kernel package. Turns out that I
Paul> had to add the --initrd flad to the the make-kpkg command:
Paul> $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --initrd kernel_package
Paul> Without this, when booting from the new kernel it would fail with an
Paul> error
Paul> VFS: Cannot open root device "308" or 03:08
Paul> immediately followed by a kernel panic. Assuming that I'm not totally
Paul> off-base, can you add this to the README?
Hmm. I think I know what is going on here, but just to make
sure I am not totally off base here: You have instructed your boot
loader to expect an initrd kernel (and that is required to load the
newer official kernel images), and were trying to build an ordinary
kernel image, correct?
Yessss. This inconsistency between the boot loader and the new
kernel image is most unpleasant.
I'll add a note to the problems file, as well as a cautionary
note to the README. (incidentally, I prefer not to use initrd
kernels, since I often add third party modules after the fact, and
not having these in the modules in the ram disk has bitten me once
too often).
Paul> THANKS to Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu> for pointing out
Paul> the solution in his reply to a thread titled "kernel complaint". I've
Paul> seen at least one other post to this list where it looks like this was
Paul> an issue, see the thread titled "Kernel Panic" by "Mike Kuhar"
>> mikek147@mediaone.net>.
manoj
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