Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422699AbXAHSL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:11:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422701AbXAHSL1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:11:27 -0500 Received: from mail.impinj.com ([206.169.229.170]:26693 "EHLO earth.impinj.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422699AbXAHSL1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:11:27 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1825 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:27 EST Subject: Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel From: Vadim Lobanov To: Jonas Svensson Cc: Tilman Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <45A228CC.5020004@imap.cc> <45A2611A.7040900@imap.cc> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:40:54 -0800 Message-Id: <1168278054.3330.4.camel@impinj-lt-0046> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1497 Lines: 37 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/