Re: "Nothing to be done for bzImage..."

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On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:31 +0200, Jeff Mutonho wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Looks like this command:
> > ln -f -s vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6
> > linked your new kernel build to vmlinuz-2.6 (Do you have this in your
> > /boot ?)
> > So, in grub, you would use that instead of the xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> 
> My grub.conf now looks like this :
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd1,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title   WinXP
> 	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> 	chainloader +1
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
> 	root (hd1,0)
> 	kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> 	module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
> 	module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-build-1)
> 	root (hd1,0)
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6
> 	module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 
> with Fedora Core (2.6.18-build-1) being the newly built kernel.However
>  , selecting that kernel at boot time , resulted in a failed boot  ,
> with an error message saying :
> "Error 13:Invalid or unsupported executable format
>  Press any key to continue....."
> The GRUB docs  explain this error as : "This error is returned if the
> kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the
> supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or
> NetBSD)."
> 
> How can my built kernel be not  supported?This was suppose to be any
> easy exercise,
>  $make mrproper ;make xconfig;make;make modules_install install
> and  'make install' was suppose to do the magic of copying my new
> kernel to the right place , update grub.conf ...
----
don't you need an initrd?

cd /boot
mkinitrd initrd-2.6.19-1.2798.fc6.img 2.6.19-1.2798

My /boot/grub/grub.conf has lines like this...

  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet rhgb quiet
  initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.img

-- 
Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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