My guess is perhaps that you're lacking support for something critical. If you've got SCSI hardware, did you build the initrd correctly, or compile the neccesary support into the kernel? If / is on an IDE drive, did you compile IDE support into the kernel? Did you compile support for whatever filesystem / uses (ext2/3, Reiser, XFS)?
--- Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2.4.18 compiled kernel that has a kernel panic and stops > dead. > It is complaining that the root= is incorrect and that hdc7 is not > root. > However the 2.4.17 does boot normally and I cannot see any reason why > 2.4.18 > complains. > > I am using grub and have for a long time here is the menu.lst > # > # /boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard > # > > > # options > > timeout = 5 > # splashscreen = (hd0,7)/boot/message.col31 > > default = 1 > > title = Linux-2.4.13 > root = (hd0,7) > kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13-modular vga=normal root=/dev/hdc7 > initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.13.gz > > title = Linux-2.4.17 > root = (hd0,7) > kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 vga=normal hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi > root=/dev/hdc7 > initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.17.gz > > title = Linux-2.4.18 > root = (hd0,7) > kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1 vga=normal root=/dev/hdc7 > initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.18.gz > > title = Windows > chainloader = (hd0,0)+1 ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.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.
