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Re: custom kernel: how to make it bootable



* Matthew Sackman <matthew@sackman.co.uk>, 2002-08-04 15:37 -0400:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Andre Berger wrote:
> > When booting, the kernel hangs at the cramfs(?), complaining not to
> > be able to find the root partition. It seems my kernel wants to use
> > an initrd.img that has not been created. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Ahh yes, the debian default kernels use an initrd image to boot off. For
> your own purposes, it's not really necessary to have this, unless you
> have unusual hardware requirements. Do a make menuconfig, go into Block
> Devices and set "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" to No. Then compile,
> install and you should find it's working now.
> 
> Initrd images allow a basic root image filesystem to be loaded off a
> disk so that the kernel can load modules etc that enable it to talk to
> the hardware that your real root fs is installed on. For some SCSI RAID
> setups this is necessary. For general desktop use with IDE disks (or
> SCSI) this really isn't necessary.
> 
> Matthew

I did that, but the new kernel gives me a panic because it can't find
the root filesystem on 03:01.

-Andre

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