On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:41:59AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 09.11.2012 19:46, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:12:09PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Am 09.11.2012 18:47, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > >>> Hi, everyone.
> >>> I recently built a kernel 3.5.7, but my system doesn't boot with it. > >>> More precisely, it appears not to be starting init, since the line > >>> containing "INIT" and "version 2.88" is missing from my console display. > >>> The booting process did get as far as mounting my root partition RO. > >>> My system boots fine with 3.3.8. > >>> In my 3.5.7. .config, I've checked obvious things like having the ext3 > >>> driver built in. > >>> Would somebody please give me some idea what I might be doing wrong. > >>> Thanks! > >> Can you post us your config? > > OK, here it is: > [...] > Works for me. For a certain definition of "works". It boots but cannot > mount tmpfs for /run. After that, openrc throws me to a login screen > with a read-only root partition. Ah, tmpfs! Yes I need that, too. As soon as I enable tmpfs in my kernel, it boots up properly. :-) Thanks very much indeed for the tip! I wonder why your system got further than mine with this kernel. > Only changes I made was changing the CPU type to intel, adding a few > crypto algorithms and adding btrfs in case the boot process got far > enough to try /etc/init.d/localmount. Root is ext4. > What init system are you using? I'm using openrc. It would seem that configuring and building a kernel is an activity for experienced users, not beginners. ;-( > Regards, > Florian Philipp -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
