RE: Kernel reboot problem

["J.S.S." <jss@pacbell.net>]

Well, i'm going to try this again (and again as long as it takes), but this
time I loaded the .config file from Redhat and am going to take out the
stuff I don't want.  Actually I should have done this from the beginning.
However, I can already see some of the things that I should have enabled
just from looking at their configuration.  I'll keep you posted on the
progress.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Drew P. Vogel
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:13 AM
To: Todor Todorov
Cc: J.S.S; Linux Kernel Mailing List
Subject: Re: Kernel reboot problem


Well, not having the proper fs drivers compiled in would not cause the
machine to reboot at that point. The lack of an initrd-2.4.17-10.img file
probably would though.

--Drew Vogel

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Todor Todorov wrote:

>Drew P. Vogel wrote:
>
>>What does the initrd= line do, and how does initrd-2.4.17-10.img get in
>>/boot?
>>
>It's a compressed file containing the compiled modules which is needed
>if a driver should be initialized before mounting the root file system,
>eg a driver for the root system. As it is in the 2.4.7 image section it
>refers only to the 2.4.7 kernel and not 2.4.18 (or whatever he tries to
>compile).
>
>And speaking of it - J.S.S., did you take the options from the Red Hat's
>stock kernel as an example to choose your options? (From your mail I
>recon that this is one of your first attempts to compile an own kernel,
>am I correct?) If you did that, you rpobably included the fs driver for
>your root system as a module and not hardlinked in the kernel - just as
>Red Hat does? In such case you would need either to provide an initrd
>image too (`man initrd`), or recompile your kernel with the driver for
>the root filesystem ( ext2 or/and ext3 or reiserfs, don't know how you
>formated your linux partition(s) ) with <y> as option for it instead of
><m>.....
>
>Stupid me for not suggesting to check that in the first mail :-/
>
>Hope you will locate the error quickliy.
>
>Cheers
>
>--
>
>Todor Todorov           <ttodorov@web.de>
>Networkadministration   <todor.todorov@skr-skr.de>
>SKR GmbH & Co. KG       http://www.skr-skr.de
>
>-----------------
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> human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
>                               - Einstein
>
>
>
>



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