Compiling a kernel problems

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/30/2010 02:52 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> There is an older kernel on there that works just fine,
>>
>> I've got config-<version>  files that go with all my kernels.
>> If you have one that matches the old working kernel, you
>> could see what config options it turns on.
>
> Yes, I should have mentioned that I tried that, but there are just so
> many differences that the comparison would be too difficult.
>
> I even tried a 'make defconfig' with the addition of compiling in
> directly support for the aacraid, initrd, sd_mod, and a few others,
> and it still won't boot.
>
> It's either a kernel bug or I'm missing something, like ACPI drivers,
> or something else that it depends on.

Are you sure the initrd ramdisk got rebuilt?
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