[SGVLUG] Initrd question

Michael Proctor-Smith mproctor13 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 12:41:30 PDT 2007


On 10/4/07, Sean O'Donnell <sean at seanodonnell.com> wrote:
>
> David Lawyer wrote:
> > Wrong mailing list.  LDP publishes documentation and is behind
> > on it's own work; so it can't be a forum for questions about Linux.
>
> hmm, what does LDP have to do w/ this?

I think David missed what list the message came from. John what does
your grub.conf look like? Assume you are getting the error on boot or
on mkinitrd?


> >
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, John Lowry wrote:
> >> In the process of rolling my own kernel I have run into a sticking
> >> point. I want to building an initrd image so I can build my file system
> >> drivers as modules, as well as my IDE drivers. I copy over the built
> >> kernel, the System.map, and build the images using mkinitrd. When I add
> >> those all to grub and try to boot, I get an error about not correct
> >> root. I can post more when I try to boot again off the initrd. Any
> >> suggestions? I am missing a crucial piece somewhere I think, because all
> >> of my google results are not returning anything like what I am experiencing.
> >>
> >                       David Lawyer
> >
> >
>


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