Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel

[Jonas Svensson]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Jonas Svensson schrieb:
> > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> Jonas Svensson schrieb:
> >> [...]
> >> > All results in the same problem: the booting stops about when grub is
> >> > finished and the kernel should continue. I get the
> >> > message about loading initrd but not the line of "Uncompressing
> >> > Linux... Ok, booting the kernel". Instead I get a blank screen with a
> >> > flashing cursor at top left. Thats all, nothing more happens. Any
> >> > suggestions on what could be wrong or what I should do?
> >>
> >> Did you build a new initrd to go with your new kernel?
> >
> > I beleive make install does that in CentOS. There were a new initrd
> > installed and it was not identical to the one supplied by CentOS.
>
> That's surprising. On SuSE I always have to build it separately
> with mkinitrd, and the kernel makefiles are the same, after all.
> Anyway, your symptoms definitely look like a bad initrd, so you
> may want to have a closer look in that area. Perhaps build a
> kernel you can boot without initrd for testing, ie. with the
> drivers for the root disk and filesystem built in.

I have done a kernel without support for modules and what I beleive is
sane settings regarding drivers. I installed it and removed the initrd
from grub.config but still got the same error.

I will try it again, maybe I missed something. I will also try to read
more on initrd and see if I am wrong to assume that make install does it
for me.

Thanks for trying to help.

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