Re: Can't boot new kernel (2.4.13) on Redhat 7.2 system

[Justin Gaither]

Vesa,
        I was under the impression that an initrd was not required.  I had
tried previously to use mkinitrd but it did not make a difference.  Is
there anything special about using the mkinitrd, do I need to mount the
image and copy stuff to it?  Or can I just run the command?

Thanks

justin

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> 
> 30.10.2001 19:20:22, Justin Gaither <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >I installed redhat 7.2, I then downloaded a generic 2.4.13 kernel from
> >kernel.org
> >
> >I applied some patches for ext3 and win4lin.  I then added the new
> >kernel to the grub.conf file as below.  However when I select the kernel
> >from the grub menu, it just reboots, and gives me the menu again.  I can
> >still boot the other kernel.  How do I get debug info, so that I can
> >tell if it is a grub problem or a kernel problem?
> >
> >grub.conf:
> >
> >default=0
> >timeout=10
> >splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-7)
> >       root (hd0,0)
> >       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-7 ro root=/dev/hda1
> >       initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-7.img
> >
> >title Win4Lin Kernel (2.4.13)
> >       root (hd0,0)
> >       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13  root=/dev/hda1
> 
> Just a guess, you need to make new initrd image for new kernel, 
> '/sbin/mkinitrd' command
> with older redhats if I remeber correcly.

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