I built the kernel 2.6.11.10 on my machine and add it to my FC3 boot menu. When booting the new kernel, I got this kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Any idea what I did wrong?
Thanks,
Frank
Sounds like a problem with the initial ramdisk. Sense you said you had to add the new kernel to the boot menu, I deduce that you didn't do the install properly (or you forgot ramdisk support in the kernel config).
Remember that you need ramdisk and initial ramdisk support in the new kernel. I learned this the hard way!
I just built 2.6.11.10 with the following procedure:
[1] download linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2 and patch-2.6.11.10.bz2
[2] tar --bzip -xf linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
[3] bunzip2 patch-2.6.11.10.bz2
[4] mv patch-2.6.11.10 linux-2.6.11
[5] cd linux-2.6.11
[6] make mrproper
Tradition!
[7] patch -p1 < patch-2.6.11.10
[8] cp /root/config.2.6.11 .config
Where I keep my config file. Yours is probably somewhere else.
[9] make oldconfig
You can replace [8,9] with make menuconfig or your favorite variation if you don't already have a saved config file.
[A] make
[B] make modules_install
Gotta do this before "make install".
[C] make install
[D] reboot
You don't have to add anything to grub.conf, "make install" did it already. And it installed the initial ramdisk.
I usually edit grub.conf to remove the previous kernel, just keeping the new one and the latest Fedora kernel in case something is broken in the new one.
Hope this helps.
John
