Yes, I see those errors as it boots up. I didn't look to see if devfs was turned on. I copied the .config from /usr/src/linux to /root/linux where I was doing the new kernel and used make oldconfig to make sure it had the same parameters as the original kernel, which works fine. I am running Mandrake8.1 with kernel 2.4.8-26mdk and am trying to get kernel 2.4.17 to work. This is all on ext2.
> You're seeing those errors at boot?? That looks quite odd to say the > least, especially 'creating root device'. Did you turn on devfs > perchance (a bad idea, especially for someone inexperienced with kernel > builds). Some info additional info here would be useful, such as which > kernel you've been running, which version your'e trying to build etc. > What kind of filesystem / sits on (ext2, ext3, Reiser, XFS). > > --- Vern W Heesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been trying to compile a newer kernel and now I get a Kernel > > panic > > error on boot. I should note that this was my first attempt at > > kernels, also > > I can boot just fine with the original kernel. The error is: > > > > creating root device > > mkrootdev: mknod failed: 17 > > mounting root filesystem with flags noatime > > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 flgs noatime > > well, retrying without the option flags > > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 > > well, retrying read-only without any flag > > mount: error 16 mounting ext2 > > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot//initrd) failed: 2 > > remounting devfs at correct place if necessary > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed > > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > > > I really don't know where I went wrong. I even did the kernel with > > 'make > > oldconfig' to make sure the parameters were the same. Any help would > > be > > greatly appreciated. > > ===== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
