Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:52 +0100, Jonas Svensson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

Jonas Svensson schrieb:
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.

I will try it again, maybe I missed something. I will also try to read
more on initrd and see if I am wrong to assume that make install does it
for me.

In my experience on openSUSE, the following sequence of commands
installs both the kernel and the initrd:
make *config*
make
make modules_install
make install
However, if the order of the last two make invocations is switched, then
the initrd does not get generated (correctly or at all). Although
unlikely to be the problem, it's a simple thing to eliminate from the
list of possible borkages.

-- Vadim Lobanov


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