On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:53:35 +0100 (MET), PFENNIGER Daniel wrote:
>On 1-Feb-99 at 14:37, Neil Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Thomas Gamble wrote:
>> >
>> > I recently tried compiling my 2.0.36 kernal for smp and got the following
>> > errors when trying to boot:
>...
>> At a wild guess, looks like your initial ramdisk (initrd) is out of
>> date. I forget how to rebuild it automatically (since I usually end up
>> doing it by hand) but I'm sure you can figure it out (the initrd is an
>> ext2 disk image which you can mount using the loopback option and it's
>> probably gzipped too, can't remember).
>
>Indeed, I have similar hardware. After make modules_install do
>
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.xx.yy.img 2.xx.yy
>
>but before, at the kernel config, make sure to set
>ramdisk support and initial ramdisk support.
>
Well, I finally got around to trying this and it worked out just fine. Thanks for all
the help.
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