Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:19:54 +0100 | From | Tilman Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel |
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Jonas Svensson schrieb: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > >> Jonas Svensson schrieb: >> [...] >> > All results in the same problem: the booting stops about when grub is >> > finished and the kernel should continue. I get the >> > message about loading initrd but not the line of "Uncompressing >> > Linux... Ok, booting the kernel". Instead I get a blank screen with a >> > flashing cursor at top left. Thats all, nothing more happens. Any >> > suggestions on what could be wrong or what I should do? >> >> Did you build a new initrd to go with your new kernel? > > I beleive make install does that in CentOS. There were a new initrd > installed and it was not identical to the one supplied by CentOS.
That's surprising. On SuSE I always have to build it separately with mkinitrd, and the kernel makefiles are the same, after all. Anyway, your symptoms definitely look like a bad initrd, so you may want to have a closer look in that area. Perhaps build a kernel you can boot without initrd for testing, ie. with the drivers for the root disk and filesystem built in.
HTH Tilman
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