Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Unable to boot off kernel built on different machine | From | Rusty Lynch <> | Date | 14 Jan 2003 01:15:15 -0800 |
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I figured it out. All I had to do was use 'rdev' to set the root correctly. Machine 'A' was setting the root as /dev/hda1 and Machine 'B' was setting the root as /dev/hdb1.
The kernel README gave me the clue.
--rustyl
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:01, Bruce Harada wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:38:36 -0800 > Rusty Lynch <rusty@penguin.co.intel.com> wrote: > > > I am having the strange problem (that I suspect is embarrassingly simple) > > where I can only boot a kernel built on the same machine. For example > > my setup looks like: > > > > * machine 'A' (RH 8.0 P4 system): > > - contains a 2.5 kernel tree on an exported NFS drive > > - this is the machine where I do all my real work, and > > do not want to run test kernels on > > * machine 'B' (RH 8.0 P3 system): > > - mounts the kernel tree on 'A' to make it easy to > > install new kernels on for testing > [SNIP] > > Check /etc/fstab on machines A and B - what do they contain?
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