[ltp] recompiling kernel gives me a headache.

[Jake Holmen]

Actually, I have Dos on 380 Meg
and Linux on the rest (whats left of 1120 Meg)

Do you think that would cane it?

J


>From: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad@langhorst.com>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>Subject: Re: [ltp] recompiling kernel gives me a headache.
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:32:38 -0500
>
>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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