Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:30:01 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Compiling and installation |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Simon Lea wrote:
> Ok, the machine is a P200 Compaq deskpro 200 with 128Mb ram > > I have Linux Kernel 1.2.13. > > The system works ok but the kernel could do with re-compiling to meet > the needs of this system. > > The steps I took; > > 1. make config - O.k. > 2. make dep - O.k. > 3. make clean - O.k. > 4. make zlilo - O.k. > > zlilo file put in /, lilo ran o.k. and disks were sync'ed >
Erm, if you run make zlilo you don't need to do anything else, it's done (unless you're saying that it did that in which case it's ok).
> Rebooted the system and everythin was ok till I got the 'VFS kernel > panic: unable to mount root file system.' > > Both partitions on the Hard drive are formatted to ext2. Ext2 support > is enabled in the new kernel. >
Hmm, something's screwy. Add a root=/dev/whatever after the name you used (make sure it's the right one ;), if that works it's your /etc/lilo.conf, specfically the root=... line.
> Remade the kernel with filesystem support for all file systems and still > the same problem. > > made zImage, copied file to /, edited /etc/lilo.config to look for > zImage, reran lilo and rebooted. Same error. >
Still look at the /etc/lilo.conf's root= line. If that's right, try putting the zImage on a floppy (have to be a 1.44M disk, a 720k one won't work if it's a >1.2.x kernel).
Use "cat /zImage >/dev/fd0", or "dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=9k", you have to set the root fs with rdev, like "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/whatever", and make sure that it mounts the root readonly with "rdev -R /dev/fd0 1" (you don't have to do this if use lilo, as it passes that on the commandline).
> Thge machine does work with the old image but this is something I would > like to sort out. >
Hmm, odd, is still works ? You tryed a newer lilo ?
> Any ideas would be very welcome. > > Cheers > > Si >
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