Sorry, one last thing that may be of importance (maybe not). The motherboard is a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2, it uses a AMD socket A chip
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7N400%20Pro2.htm Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Kernel upgrade from Sarge (fresh install) 2.4.25 -> 2.6.3 or 5 > Opps, forgot to post the meat of my message > > Here's the kernel panic I get (copied by hand): > VFS - Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append correct "Root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > The steps I made in building my new kernel are as follows: > > apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev make gcc g++ patch > apt-get install bin86 kernel-package module-init-tools > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.3 > bunzip2 -c kernel-source-2.6.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvf > ln -s kernel-source-2.6.3 linux > cd linux > cp /boot/config-2.4.25-1-386 .config > make menuconfig # didn't really do much here except make the processor type > AMD > make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image > cd .. > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.3_Custom.1_i386.deb > > reboot > > Am I supposed to do something like: > cd /boot > mkinitrd -r /dev/hda0 -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.3 > mv /initrd.img /initrd.img-old > ln -s /boot/initrd.img-2.6.3 /initrd.img > # Change my entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst > > Honestly, I don't even know what this does, it seems important, because I > had to do it when I was playing with software raid (on a different box). > What does the the initrd.img file do/contain? > > Thanks > Jay > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "vox-tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 9:17 AM > Subject: [vox-tech] Kernel upgrade from Sarge (fresh install) 2.4.25 -> > 2.6.3 or 5 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my kernel on a brand new install of sarge, but after > > rebooting my kernel panics on boot. I'd like to post the panic messages. > > How can I get the boot and panic messages from a boot that fails? I can > > reboot into the old kernel but then the messages are gone (or I don't know > > where to look) > > > > Thanks > > Jay > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech