FC3 does not boot with an own vanilla kernel

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 20:47:42 UTC 2004


>   using 2.6.9 from kernel.org:
> 
>     while in /usr/src/linux-2.6.9:
> 
>       mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd-2.6.9.img 2.6.9  ??
> 
>   is this bogus?

no but you have to tell your bootloader about it as well otherwise it
just goes unused.

> 
>   P.S.  as a side note, i remember the LABEL=/ directive not
>         working with kernel.org 2.4 kernels since RH8, and i
>         never really *had* to bother with building initrds then.
>         I just assumed some RH proprietary stuff was not present
>         and didn't worry too much about it.

well that's the wrong assumption; LABEL= has never been a kernel side
thing...
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