-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I've installed dozens of kernels in the past, but today I'm totally defeated. Notable differances are: 1. I've always used lilo in the past now I"m using GRUB (hey, I thought GRUB was supposed to be easier ;-) 2. I've never used make rpm before, but I doubt that's the problem. I have tried adding the new kernel to grub both manually and with YaST2. initrd created with the following command: mk_initrd -k "vmlinuz-2.4.20.4suse.ll.1" -i "initrd-2.4.20.4suse.ll.1" -m "aic7xxx reiserfs" -d /dev/hda6 Please note that my fs is on an ATA drives, not a SCSI drive, so the aic7xxx is completely irrelivent. FYI this is on a uniprocessor Athlon XP 1500+, FIC mainboard, one stick of 256 DDR RAM. What happens is when I boot up the new kernel (I have the 2 default SuSE kernels and a Win2k install and a backup kernel I made from the SuSE one, all of those work fine) I get the following mesages: <a bunch of stuff about USB> <something about telephony> TCP: Hash tables configured <lalala> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET$.0 ds: no socket drviers loaded! Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06 / is /dev/hdc6, this works fine for the other 3 kernels /boot is /dev/hdc2 Both ar reiserfs. I have _never_ had problems with /boot being ReiserFS in the past, so I"m not inclined to blame it this time. Here's my grub menu.list: cadmium:~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Feb 1 14:19:45 2003 gfxmenu (hd2,1)/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 12 title linux kernel (hd2,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc6 vga=788 initrd (hd2,1)/initrd title built4suse2 kernel (hd2,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.20.4suse.ll.1 root=/dev/hdc6 initrd (hd2,1)/initrd title Win2k root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive title SuSE 8.0 kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc5 vga=788 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd title SuSE8.1def kernel (hd2,1)/vmlinuz.susedef root=/dev/hdc6 vga=788 initrd (hd2,1)/initrd.susedef title failsafe kernel (hd2,1)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hdc6 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3 initrd (hd2,1)/initrd.shipped title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 cadmium:~ # Please note the the wierd name of the vmlinuz and initrd were created by my EXTRAVERSION variable, and not by renaming the file. Kernel compiled with make menuconfig, reiserfs as module, "second exttended fs support" compiled directly in (not as module), make dep ; make rpm ; rpm -ihv <kernel> No errors produced durning kernel build. LowLatency and 04_TIOCGDEV patches applied, both applied cleanly with no errors. No manual hacking besides EXTRAVERSION mod. So, any ideas what I'm doing wrong? - -- - ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PDS3Q5u80xXOLBcRAmzyAJ0X5PtdrMPqs/pJsPMTkmhoDZNrhgCgs9Ol gdZuH1Y2ZviU9vyEwO7NEak= =ZIzK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----