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
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