[ltp] Processor architecture change causes kernel panic

[Eben King]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Niel Lambrechts wrote:

> > Did you do a 'make install', or otherwise move the new kernel 
> > into place? Could you accidentally be using the old kernel 
> > with the new modules?
> > 
> No, I definitely moved the kernel and system.map to /boot manually... I
> do it this way so make install does not mess up my lilo configuration.
> And yes, I did run lilo, after the mkinitrd which recommends it in any
> case.
> 
> I think one possible solution for me would be to compile reiserfs into
> the kernel instead of as a module. Then after IPL, I could potentially
> retry the initrd configuration. But it this the "linux recommended" way
> when changing processor architecture?
> 
> But it does seem like an awful long workaround, given the long compile
> time for SuSE kernels... :)

There might be support in there for hardware you don't have, filesystems 
you'll never see, etc.  I start from a working (but near-minimal) .config 
and add as needed, rather than start from one of those kitchen-sink 
.configs and subtract.

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