Help building the kernel???

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:18 AM -0800 12/9/05, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
>FC3 comes stock with the 2.6.9 kernel.  I downloaded the sources for the
>2.6.14 kernel and copied the config files from /boot and remade it.
>Upon bootup, I get the following messages:
>
>Mounting sysfs
>Creating /dev
>Starting udev
>Creating root device
>Mounting root filesystem
>Mount: error 19 mounting ext3
>Mount: error mounting none
>Switching to new root
>Switchroot: mount failed: 22
>Umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
>The system is a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with a stock 'everything' install of
>FC3 using an ext3 filesystem on a 160Gb drive with 1g for /boot, 2g for
>swap and the rest as slash.
>
>What am I missing (besides my mind)????

yum?  Although "uname -r" shows that FC3 is only up to 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3.

mkinitrd?  Just a guess.

make oldconfig?  Another guess.  That will ask any new questions.

Did you follow the procedures in the FC3 Release Notes and the Kernel README?
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