[ltp] recompiling kernel gives me a headache.

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

maybe you just hit that 1024 limit...
try putting the new kernel on a /boot in the first 10 m or so 
of the disk. Hope you have partition magic...

brad
Jake Holmen wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> Recently I decided to grab a new kernel & corresponding pcmcia tarballs.
> I un-tarred them to /usr/src/   and then entered the linux directory,
> make xconfig
> 
> (MAKING SURE TO INCLUDE EXT2 FS support! ) then did a
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install.
> 
> Then I moved the bzImage to /boot and made a symlink to vmlinuz
> and moved the System.map to /boot and made sure that it was pointing to
> System.map .
> Then I re-ran lilo
> and got
> added dos on /dev/hda5  *
> added linux on /dev/hda6
> 
> Then I rebooted, and I got kernel panic.
> Cannot mount root partition on /dev/hda5 DOH!!
> 
> I tried this about 4 times, adding NFS support, dos support?? , ext2 support
> etc etc.  recompiling and all.
> But still I couldn't reboot!  Bugger.
> 
> Can anyone see a stupid thing that I did, or had a similar experience?
> 
> CHeers/
> 
> J
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