NTFS under kernel#2.6.3-2.1.204

[Adam Cooper]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 18:09, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:51, Adam Cooper wrote:
> 
> > There are however no (that I can find) rpm's built for this kernel
> > version at the sourceforge site. Do any of you guy's know of any? I am
> > not a newb but not yet confident enough to try compiling my kernel.
> > 
> Give it a shot. Your computer is not going to blow up. Leave the stock
> kernel as the default until you're sure.

Well i gave it a shot. This is what happened.

I followed this guide:
http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html

It pretty much gave me all the information i needed. However during the
mkinitrd stage i got this:

[root at blah]# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4Custom.img 2.6.4Custom
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such file or directory
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Command failed

Not knowing what this meant I carried on :\

[root at blah]# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.4Custom
[root at blah]# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.4Custom
[root at blah]# ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.4Custom /boot/System.map
ln: `/boot/System.map': File exists

I know what this means but I don't want to replace files. I didn't think
i had to?

I edited grub with the correct entries.

Upon reboot I get a kernel panic.
I can't remember the exact message but its something about VFS not being
able to mount the root file system at (0,0).

As you can tell I'm a bit new to some of this.

Any tips?

Cheers
Adam