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

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Stephen Kitchener
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