kernel from 1 box to another
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 25 22:15:54 UTC 2006
On 5/25/06, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
>
> > It will work, but you have to build a new initrd file. Just (as root)
> > do '/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-(kernel version).img (kernel
> > version)'. That is because the initrd holds the modules needed to
> > start up, and is different for each system.
> > -
> thanks for the reply - i did what you suggested but the boot failed with
> a kernel panic and this was on the console
>
> Creating root device
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>
> any ideas??
Are you copying to an existing working system? Either you don't have the
drivers for this machine's disk controller or the filesystem doesn't have a
label.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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