On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Grub and Lilo handle booting differently. > > > > These are the lines I have. I don't need an initrd so that line is > omitted. > > > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > > root = /dev/sda2 > > label = Linux > > read-only > > > > Did you run lilo -v after you compiled the new kernel and initrd? I > believe > > make install when compiling the kernel auto adds the line entry to > > /etc/lilo.conf now so that shouldn't be an issue. > > > > Drew- > > I neither use lilo nor grub. I use freedos 1.0 and > loadlin with a directory that holds the kernel and > initrd files: > > loadlin.exe 2_6_27.gz initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/sda6 > > and the above command fails with a kernel panic and a > warning that my method of indicating where the root > is is deprecated. > > I suspect the kernel should work with Slackware 10.1. > I grabbed an unzipped copy of /proc/config.gz from > the old 2.6.10 kernel and fed that into the 2.6.27.39 > xconfig script. In essence, I should have built the > same kernel with the same modules and any new > dependencies should have been satisfied. > > Do I label the root partition as ROOT and set > root=LABEL=ROOT or something similar? > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I don't use loadlin so I have no clue but a quick google search turned up this. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/initrd.txt _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
