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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:42:21 -0600
From: Richard Ayer III <rwa1@cec.wustl.edu>
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To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel builds from  linux-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
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Thomas Molina wrote:

>>>Would you care to send me a copy of the .config file you used?  I might be 
>>>able to spot something.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Here it is. Interestingly, the ext2, ext3, and jbd are set the same as 
>>the config-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 that works just fine; though I had tried 
>>having them all as builtin, which didn't work. Thanks for the help.
>>    
>>
>
>I took your config file and used it to build and boot the 
>2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 source tree.  It booted without panicing at loading of 
>the root filesystem.  It had other problems, but that was because of 
>differences between your system and mine.  
>
>I do have a couple of thoughts though.  I'm wondering what procedure you 
>used to compile the kernel.  There are some differences between 2.4 and 
>2.6 for this.  In 2.4 you would do
>make [old/menu/x]config
>make dep
>make bzImage
>make modules
>make modules_install
>make install
>
>whereas in 2.6 you skip a couple of those steps.  I copied your 
>configuration into the source tree as .config and did:
>make oldconfig
>make
>make modules_install
>make install
>
>After which I rebooted.  The stanza in grub.conf corresponding to this 
>was:
>
>title Fedora Core (2.6.3-test)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-test ro root=/dev/hda1 vga=792
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.3-test.img
>
>Note the root=/dev/hda1.  That was probably the difference which allowed 
>me to boot.
>
>Interestingly is the following extract from /var/log/messages showing a 
>problem:
>
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: try_name("hda1", 0)
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: try_name("hda", 1)
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device hda1): 
>ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel:
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Mar 23 06:33:05 dad kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
>
>I'm wondering if the above extract shows there is some problem in the way 
>FC2T1 builds and installs the initrd.  
>
>I believe this might be relevant to bring up on the public list.  I would 
>like to have the developers consider whether this is a procedural problem 
>on our part or whether there is a problem in building and installing the 
>kernel that they need to address.  I will not forward your private email 
>to a public list without your permission, but please consider forwarding 
>this to the public list with my permission.
>  
>
To everyone who helped (especially Thomas and Michal), thank you! It 
would seem that the error arose because I have turned off RAM disk 
support, and when I turned it back on the default size was set to 4096, 
but needed to be 8192. So, again, thanks for the help!

Richard Ayer III

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