On Tuesday 20 July 2004 17:44, Sylvain Raybaud wrote: > I have had about the same problem trying to boot a recompiled version of my > native fedora core 2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358; basically, you should make sure > you have included in the kernel any tool necessary to mount ext (ext2 ou 3, > I don't remember) filesystem, and swap too, but NOT AS MODULE (really built > in). But I think that's what I did, and my own custom kernel still panic > when trying to mount the root filesystem. I think I also heard somewhere > that kernel whith an odd number (2.5 is odd, 2.6 isn't) are prereleases > while kernel whith an even number are stable releases. It could the reason > why your kernel won't boot, it is bogus, but I don't remember where I heard > that so maybe I just dreamed it ;). please let me know if you succed in > booting this kernel. > Sylvain > PS : I thought Fedora Core 2 was provided with 2.6 kernel, so why do you > want to use the 2.5 one ? I want to use a tool called Linux Trace Tool Kit. http://www.opersys.com/LTT it supplies patches for only 2.4.16 and 2.5.7 I tried to compile 2.4.16, but it resulted in compilation errors. Its really painful to see that gcc's newer versions come with new rules. Because, one has to escape a '\n' character with \ otherwise it reports error. But thats not the case with older versions.( I use 3.3.3). Even after making those tweaks, it's showing some errors. Thats why I gave up 2.4.16 and took 2.5.7. Fortunately it went nice, but hung up at boot time. I dont know whats the reason. I had compiled the ide drivers with kernel. The presence or absence of initrd is not making any difference. Its just giving the same error. Please help me out. -- Regards, B.Nagaprabhanjan. Mobile No: 9892163849 http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~nagaprabhanjan/
