linux-kernel - Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel

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Date:	Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:19:54 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Jonas Svensson <jonass@...ator.liu.se>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel

Jonas Svensson schrieb:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Jonas Svensson schrieb:
>> [...]
>> > All results in the same problem: the booting stops about when grub is
>> > finished and the kernel should continue. I get the
>> > message about loading initrd but not the line of "Uncompressing
>> > Linux... Ok, booting the kernel". Instead I get a blank screen with a
>> > flashing cursor at top left. Thats all, nothing more happens. Any
>> > suggestions on what could be wrong or what I should do?
>>
>> Did you build a new initrd to go with your new kernel?
> 
> I beleive make install does that in CentOS. There were a new initrd
> installed and it was not identical to the one supplied by CentOS.

That's surprising. On SuSE I always have to build it separately
with mkinitrd, and the kernel makefiles are the same, after all.
Anyway, your symptoms definitely look like a bad initrd, so you
may want to have a closer look in that area. Perhaps build a
kernel you can boot without initrd for testing, ie. with the
drivers for the root disk and filesystem built in.

HTH
Tilman

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