Re: Error message after lilo on 2.4.17

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:36:06PM +0000, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
 
> 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 :-).

Actually, you need an initrd too:

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
>         label=2417
>         root=/dev/sda1
>         read-only
>         optional
>         vga=normal
>         append=" devfs=mount quiet"
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17.img

Is your initrd set up to mount root as ext3?  Under Red Hat, that
happens automatically if you have ext3 as the root fstype in
/etc/fstab when you run mkinitrd; I've no idea whether or not Mandrake
has the same magic.

Cheers,
 Stephen