On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:07:38AM -0700, Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela wrote:
I compile 3.2.9, install the modules and then try an boot... ?and it fails to find my root disk and panics. ?I can see from the boot messages that the kernel is seeing them, but it's failing to mount and switchroot.
Seems to me that your kernel build configuration does not include the FS module, for example, if your root FS is ext4 or xfs you should
Yeah, I thogught that it's ext3 and ext3.ko is in the tree # grep ext3 init echo "Loading ext3.ko module" insmod /lib/ext3.ko mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/sda3 # ls -l lib/ext3.ko -rw------- 1 root root 219560 Apr 3 16:08 lib/ext3.ko #
Also the problem with compiling a new kernel is that the vanilla configuration may not work for you and configuring kernel options can be pretty daunting at first and even with each new version new stuff keeps piling in.
I took the existing config (from /boot/config...) and then ran make oldconfig < /dev/null
(which may not have been optimal, but it seemed to work :-))