[SGVLUG] Initrd question

John Lowry johnlowry at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 12:43:18 PDT 2007


I am getting the error on boot. Unfortunately I am away form the machine
that is giving me the issues.

Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> 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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