On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:54 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Guys, I've rebuilt this kernel so many times that I should have the > sources memorized by now and it's just not working. I'm to the point of > frusteration that I'm ready to dig out the old Abacus! > > Trying to rebuild a 2.6.14.4 kernel on a Dell PE1800 with a fresh > install of FC4. Using the config files from /boot with no modifications > other than what make xconfig adds in for me. Make install and > modules_install and reboot (in single user mode for what it's worth). It should be "make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install;make install" Did you create a new initrd image? You need to if you're using SCSI and/or ext3 filesystems. # cd /boot # mkinitrd -f -v (kernelversion).img (kernelversion) replacing "(kernelversion)" with your actual kernel version. > On boot up I get: > > Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting > Mounted /proc filesystem > Mounting sysfs > Creating /dev > Starting udev > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > Mount: error 19 mounting ext3 > Switching to new root > ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 > Error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 > Error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 > Error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 > Unmounting old /proc > Unmounting old /sys > Switchroot: mount failed: 22 The above line is a pretty indication your initrd isn't there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. We have - - lazy programmers. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
