Forgive me. It is early :]
--Drew Vogel
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Drew P. Vogel wrote:
>Well, not having the proper fs drivers compiled in would not cause the
>machine to reboot at that point. The lack of an initrd-2.4.17-10.img file
>probably would though.
>
>--Drew Vogel
>
>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Todor Todorov wrote:
>
>>Drew P. Vogel wrote:
>>
>>>What does the initrd= line do, and how does initrd-2.4.17-10.img get in
>>>/boot?
>>>
>>It's a compressed file containing the compiled modules which is needed
>>if a driver should be initialized before mounting the root file system,
>>eg a driver for the root system. As it is in the 2.4.7 image section it
>>refers only to the 2.4.7 kernel and not 2.4.18 (or whatever he tries to
>>compile).
>>
>>And speaking of it - J.S.S., did you take the options from the Red Hat's
>>stock kernel as an example to choose your options? (From your mail I
>>recon that this is one of your first attempts to compile an own kernel,
>>am I correct?) If you did that, you rpobably included the fs driver for
>>your root system as a module and not hardlinked in the kernel - just as
>>Red Hat does? In such case you would need either to provide an initrd
>>image too (`man initrd`), or recompile your kernel with the driver for
>>the root filesystem ( ext2 or/and ext3 or reiserfs, don't know how you
>>formated your linux partition(s) ) with <y> as option for it instead of
>><m>.....
>>
>>Stupid me for not suggesting to check that in the first mail :-/
>>
>>Hope you will locate the error quickliy.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>--
>>
>>Todor Todorov <ttodorov@web.de>
>>Networkadministration <todor.todorov@skr-skr.de>
>>SKR GmbH & Co. KG http://www.skr-skr.de
>>
>>-----------------
>>"Only two things are infinite, the universe and the
>> human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
>> - Einstein
>>
>>
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