On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 18:09, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:51, Adam Cooper wrote: > > > There are however no (that I can find) rpm's built for this kernel > > version at the sourceforge site. Do any of you guy's know of any? I am > > not a newb but not yet confident enough to try compiling my kernel. > > > Give it a shot. Your computer is not going to blow up. Leave the stock > kernel as the default until you're sure. Well i gave it a shot. This is what happened. I followed this guide: http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html It pretty much gave me all the information i needed. However during the mkinitrd stage i got this: [root@blah]# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4Custom.img 2.6.4Custom /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such file or directory Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Command failed Not knowing what this meant I carried on :\ [root@blah]# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.4Custom [root@blah]# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.4Custom [root@blah]# ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.4Custom /boot/System.map ln: `/boot/System.map': File exists I know what this means but I don't want to replace files. I didn't think i had to? I edited grub with the correct entries. Upon reboot I get a kernel panic. I can't remember the exact message but its something about VFS not being able to mount the root file system at (0,0). As you can tell I'm a bit new to some of this. Any tips? Cheers Adam
