Re: Grub menu.lst

From: Freddy Freeloader (fredddy_at_cableone.net)
Date: 11/29/04

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    Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:30:07 -0800
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    Francois Cerbelle wrote:
    > Le Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:36:57AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit :
    >
    >>Francois Cerbelle wrote:
    >>
    >>>Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you
    >>>root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate
    >>>module in its initrd. I bet that your kernel doesnt have either an initrd
    >>>image or the filesystem support ! ;-)
    >>
    >>Well, I have another Debian machine with both the 2.4 and the 2.6
    >>kernels on it. I compiled the 2.6.9 kernels for both machines and
    >>included the ext3 file system support in both. The 2.6.9 kernel in the
    >>one machine boots fine, this one won't. I actually supported more file
    >>systems in the kernel for the machine that doesn't boot than I did in
    >>the machine that does.
    >>
    >
    >
    > So, it might be the hardware support. You might have the good support
    > for one of your computers, but not for the other (IDE chipset, SCSI
    > chipset, ...) Are you sure you compiled all the hardware support for
    > your second computer ? Is it in module or in the kernel itself ?
    >
    > In the boot messages before the panic, can you see your hard drives
    > and their partitions recognized by the kernel ?
    >
    > Fanfan

    Thanks to all for your replies.

    I got it fixed. I guess either I screwed up or something else did in
    compiling the kernel because I compiled another one and it worked fine.
        I guess that's what I get for compiling a kernel at 3:00 in the
    morning when I shoulda been sleeping. ;) 

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