On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:45:11 +0100, Emiliano Brunetti wrote: > > > However, two strange things happened: > > - at first boot my new kernel got panic - it wouldn't recnogize boot > option root=LABEL=/ in grub.conf. A simple change into root=/dev/myhd > solved. Any hints on how to restore it to root=LABEL=/? You need to build a new initrd image for that custom kernel and add it to your grub conf. See this for some helpful kernel related info: http://www.linux.org.uk/%7Edavej/docs/fedora-kernel-faq.txt >- there's a little mess with modules, possibly due to a bad >configuration of mine. However, that mess got inherited by binary kernel >2140.nptl, installed with a simple 'yum update' some weeks ago. Now that >kernel at boot time looks for modules that were not even compiled before >i >tried to make a custom kernel with 2149.nptl sources. You could try to add `alias modulename off` to /etc/modules.conf. Also issue a `depmod -a`. See `man depmod` for more useful information. -- Matt