Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

I would not assume that the settings are the same.

Run 'make menuconfig' and check

Be sure of the following are compiled into the kernel:
	ext2, ext3, reiserfs
	ide & scsi support for your ide/scsi chips/boards

Verify that your lilo.conf has the right settings for partitions and 
kernel file from the dpkg -i yourkernel.deb

How are you getting to a shell to check /var/log <which is a directory 
not a file???> to look for messages if the kernel panics and halts?

If you need more specific help, provide more specifics on your process 
and StepByStep results.

Mariano Kamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I still haven't given up yet to compile my own kernel, but I am nearly
> there. Meanhwile I removed the kernel and the kernel source packages and
> installed them again. But even from the scratch without changing
> anything I get a kernel panic from my compiled kernel. Aren't the
> default settings being supposed to be the same as the standard kernel
> shipped? The standard kernel is working though. 
>
>   Problem is it doesn't support acpi out of the box and afaik I need
> acpi if I don't want to burn the processor on this particular machine
> (as described on linux-laptop.org).
>
>   For the record .. I am using woody on a sony vaio grx316g.
>
>   Btw. I also bought a null modem cabel to get the console messages from
> the kernel before the panic, but unfortunately I found out that my
> laptop has three usb, and firewire and ..., but not a serial port :-(
> Are there any other ways to see the kernel messages? I believe that the
> file system is not mounted at that point in time and probably because of
> that I don't see any relevant messages below /var/log.
>
> Cheers,
> Mariano