2002-01-09 21:36:48

by Stephen Kitchener

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Subject: Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

Hi,

I hope this it the right place, it is kernel related.

I have built a 2.4.17 kernel from source on a machine here, via make
mrproper, make xconfig, make bZimage, make mdules, make modules_install,
,make install. Im just repeating them here so that you can see what I have
done :-).

Checked the lilo.config, run /sbin/lilo and booted the machine.

When the machine boots it finds the kernel, lilo dosnt hang but I get this...

uncompressing linux. OK booting the kernel
Unknown bridge resourse at 0: assuming transparent
mkroot: mknod failed: 17
mount error 16 Mounting ext3 flags. Kernel panic no init found.
Try passing init=option to kernel.

The first two lines appear when I am booting from a 2.4.8 kernel, but things
load correctly there and the 2.4.8 kernel and modules were installed the same
way as the 2.4.17 version, so I am at a loss as to what I have missed.

Can someone help please

--
Stephen Kitchener


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2002-01-15 14:14:10

by Stephen C. Tweedie

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Subject: Re: Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:36:06PM +0000, Stephen Kitchener wrote:

> I have built a 2.4.17 kernel from source on a machine here, via make
> mrproper, make xconfig, make bZimage, make mdules, make modules_install,
> ,make install. Im just repeating them here so that you can see what I have
> done :-).

Actually, you need an initrd too:

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
> label=2417
> root=/dev/sda1
> read-only
> optional
> vga=normal
> append=" devfs=mount quiet"
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17.img

Is your initrd set up to mount root as ext3? Under Red Hat, that
happens automatically if you have ext3 as the root fstype in
/etc/fstab when you run mkinitrd; I've no idea whether or not Mandrake
has the same magic.

Cheers,
Stephen