[PLUG] Trouble with 2.6.27.39 kernel...

[drew wymore]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Michael Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com>wrote:

> > Grub and Lilo handle booting differently.
> >
> > These are the lines I have. I don't need an initrd so that line is
> omitted.
> >
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz
> >   root = /dev/sda2
> >   label = Linux
> >   read-only
> >
> > Did you run lilo -v after you compiled the new kernel and initrd? I
> believe
> > make install when compiling the kernel auto adds the line entry to
> > /etc/lilo.conf now so that shouldn't be an issue.
> >
> > Drew-
>
> I neither use lilo nor grub.  I use freedos 1.0 and
> loadlin with a directory that holds the kernel and
> initrd files:
>
> loadlin.exe 2_6_27.gz initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/sda6
>
> and the above command fails with a kernel panic and a
> warning that my method of indicating where the root
> is is deprecated.
>
> I suspect the kernel should work with Slackware 10.1.
> I grabbed an unzipped copy of /proc/config.gz from
> the old 2.6.10 kernel and fed that into the 2.6.27.39
> xconfig script.  In essence, I should have built the
> same kernel with the same modules and any new
> dependencies should have been satisfied.
>
> Do I label the root partition as ROOT and set
> root=LABEL=ROOT or something similar?
>
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I don't use loadlin so I have no clue but a quick google search turned up
this.

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/initrd.txt