Hello everybody, I'm a newbie in compiling kernel, and I don't know exactly what problems are caused by 2.2.x kernels
I've tried compiling one, and the make menuconfig, make dep make clean and make ran just fine. It was the kernel provided with slink's packages: kernel-2.2.1. I don'yt know if it's normal or not, but the make zImage or make vmlinuz didn't work, so I just typed 'make', and I got a brand new vmlinux file. I Gzipped it to have it vmlinux.gz, and put the file in the root directory ( / ), beside the vmlinuz file of the kernel 2.0.36. I work on an alphastation 200 4/166. I still use the milo version from the debian slink distribution, and the root directory is on the sda7 partition, so the option in Arcbios for booting are: boot sda7:vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 after having replaces vmlinuz with vmlinux.gz, and rebooting, the system seems to reboot correctly after it finds 3 network devices (eth0, eth1 and eth2; butI only have two): eth0: Digital DC21040 Tulip at 0x8800,08 00 2b e6 7a 97, IRQ 15 eth1: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0x9000, 00 00 f8 1a b5 57, IRQ 14. eth1: Index #0 - media 10baseT(#0) described by a 21142 serial PHY (2) block eth1: Index #0 - media 10baseT-FD(#4) described by a 21142 serial PHY (2) block eth1: Index #0 - media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block eth1: Index #0 - media 10baseTx-FD(#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block eth2: region already allocated at 0x8800. eth2: region already allocated at 0x9000. and then says: VFS: cannot open root device 08:07 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:07 And then, everything is stopped, and I have to reboot. Could someone explain what the problem can be, or direct me to some information. Thanks _______________________________________________________________ _ _ _____ \|/_\|/ | \ / | | __ \ Marc Dubrowski /^ ^\ | \/ | | | \ \ K.B.I.N.I.R.Sc.N.B.- Unité Informatique [(°)|(°)] | |\/| | | | ) ) 29 rue Vautier B-1040 Bruxelles \ / | | | | | |__/ / Tél: 32 2 6274403 \_^_/ |_| |_| |_____/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etonnant! _______________________________________________________________ Non ?