Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

[Stephen Kitchener]

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Hi,

I hope this it the right place, it is kernel related.

I have built a 2.4.17 kernel from source on a machine here, via make 
mrproper, make xconfig, make bZimage, make mdules, make modules_install, 
,make install. Im just repeating them here so that you can see what I have 
done :-).

Checked the lilo.config, run /sbin/lilo and booted the machine.

When the machine boots it finds the kernel, lilo dosnt hang but I get this...

uncompressing linux. OK booting the kernel
Unknown bridge resourse at 0: assuming transparent
mkroot: mknod failed: 17
mount error 16 Mounting ext3 flags. Kernel panic no init found.
Try passing init=option to kernel.

The first two lines appear when I am booting from a 2.4.8 kernel, but things 
load correctly there and the 2.4.8 kernel and modules were installed the same 
way as the 2.4.17 version, so I am at a loss as to what I have missed.

Can someone help please

-- 
Stephen Kitchener

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boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=248-341-radio
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/sda1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append=" devfs=mount quiet"
        vga=788
        read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux-nonfb
        root=/dev/sda1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append=" devfs=mount"
        read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=failsafe
        root=/dev/sda1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append=" devfs=mount failsafe"
        read-only
other=/dev/fd0
        label=floppy
        unsafe

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-34.1mdk
        label=248-341
        root=/dev/sda1
        read-only
        optional
        vga=normal
        append=" devfs=mount quiet"
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk.img

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
        label=2417
        root=/dev/sda1
        read-only
        optional
        vga=normal
        append=" devfs=mount quiet"
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17.img

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-34.1mdk-Radio
        label=248-341-Radio
        root=/dev/sda1
        read-only
        optional
        vga=normal
        append=" devfs=mount quiet"
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk-Radio.img

Re: Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:36:06PM +0000, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
 
> I have built a 2.4.17 kernel from source on a machine here, via make 
> mrproper, make xconfig, make bZimage, make mdules, make modules_install, 
> ,make install. Im just repeating them here so that you can see what I have 
> done :-).

Actually, you need an initrd too:

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
>         label=2417
>         root=/dev/sda1
>         read-only
>         optional
>         vga=normal
>         append=" devfs=mount quiet"
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17.img

Is your initrd set up to mount root as ext3?  Under Red Hat, that
happens automatically if you have ext3 as the root fstype in
/etc/fstab when you run mkinitrd; I've no idea whether or not Mandrake
has the same magic.

Cheers,
 Stephen