Did you run "make install" in the kernel's source directory after building kernel or did I forget mentioning it?
Adrian PS: Sorry for the bad quoting style. Currently on mobile. > On Dec 2, 2016, at 7:05 PM, rod <r.schn...@mythos.freeddns.org> wrote: > >> On 12/2/2016 11:51 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Change the first SILO entry to: >> >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.11 >> label=Linux >> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.8.11 >> >> You simply forgot to modify silo.conf to point to the correct kernel and >> initrd. >> >> Currently it's configured to boot "vmlinuz" from the system's root directory >> which is most likely a symlink to a kernel in /boot (check "ls -l /vmlinuz") >> and use /initrd-4.8.11 as the initrd which is probably a symlink as well. >> >> Adrian >> >>> On Dec 2, 2016, at 6:32 PM, rod <r.schn...@mythos.freeddns.org> wrote: >>> >>> image=/vmlinuz >>> label=Linux >>> initrd=/initrd.img-4.8.11 > > > I noticed that whilst typing the email and have gone looking for > vmlinuz-4.8.11. > > It's not in /boot and updatedb/locate doesn't show one on the system > symlinked or otherwise. > > Did we not create it somehow? Is it supposed to be created when the > kernel is built? > > Building kernels is fun! ;)