From: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
To: Bruce Harada <bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: rusty@penguin.co.intel.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to boot off kernel built on different machine
Date: 14 Jan 2003 01:15:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042535719.3360.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030115100119.6e8e731f.bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp>
I figured it out. All I had to do was use 'rdev' to set the root
correctly. Machine 'A' was setting the root as /dev/hda1 and
Machine 'B' was setting the root as /dev/hdb1.
The kernel README gave me the clue.
--rustyl
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:01, Bruce Harada wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:38:36 -0800
> Rusty Lynch <rusty@penguin.co.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having the strange problem (that I suspect is embarrassingly simple)
> > where I can only boot a kernel built on the same machine. For example
> > my setup looks like:
> >
> > * machine 'A' (RH 8.0 P4 system):
> > - contains a 2.5 kernel tree on an exported NFS drive
> > - this is the machine where I do all my real work, and
> > do not want to run test kernels on
> > * machine 'B' (RH 8.0 P3 system):
> > - mounts the kernel tree on 'A' to make it easy to
> > install new kernels on for testing
> [SNIP]
>
> Check /etc/fstab on machines A and B - what do they contain?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-14 19:38 Unable to boot off kernel built on different machine Rusty Lynch
2003-01-15 1:01 ` Bruce Harada
2003-01-14 9:15 ` Rusty Lynch [this message]
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