Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:54:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:54:04 -0500 Received: from gold.he.net ([216.218.149.2]:9482 "EHLO gold.he.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:53:48 -0500 Reply-To: From: "J.S.S." To: "Drew P. Vogel" Cc: Subject: RE: Kernel reboot problem Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:56:25 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 as option for it instead of >..... > >Stupid me for not suggesting to check that in the first mail :-/ > >Hope you will locate the error quickliy. > >Cheers > >-- > >Todor Todorov >Networkadministration >SKR GmbH & Co. KG http://www.skr-skr.de > >----------------- >"Only two things are infinite, the universe and the > human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" > - Einstein > > > > - 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/ - 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/