Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:13:18 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Error message after lilo on 2.4.17 |
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Hi,
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:36:06PM +0000, Stephen Kitchener wrote: > I have built a 2.4.17 kernel from source on a machine here, via make > mrproper, make xconfig, make bZimage, make mdules, make modules_install, > ,make install. Im just repeating them here so that you can see what I have > done :-).
Actually, you need an initrd too:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 > label=2417 > root=/dev/sda1 > read-only > optional > vga=normal > append=" devfs=mount quiet" > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17.img
Is your initrd set up to mount root as ext3? Under Red Hat, that happens automatically if you have ext3 as the root fstype in /etc/fstab when you run mkinitrd; I've no idea whether or not Mandrake has the same magic.
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