Yes. Here is what happens: Booting (CentOS 2.6.9MHRsmp)' kernel direct mapping nodes[?] up to 10100000000 @ 8000-d000 root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x190795] initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x3706300, 0x18caf6 bytes] . Decompressing Linux...done Booting the kernel audit (1170068438.664:0): initialized Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 206) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchresest: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init Then the system halts. I'm using the same config file as the installed CentOS 2.6.9-42.0.3, and here are my /etc/fstab and grub.conf contents: [root at localhost linux]# cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 [root at localhost linux]# cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu password **************************************************** title CentOS (2.6.9MHRsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9MHRsmp2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9MHRsmp2 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9MHRsmp2.img title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img title CentOS-4 x86_64-up (2.6.9-42.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img Any hints, suggestions, comments, etc. would be most welcome. Thanks. mhr -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Marcin Mazurek Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with building a complete kernel Mark Hull-Richter (mhull-richter at datallegro.com) napisał(a): > I haven't actually made any changes to the kernel yet - I need a working > build, hopefully one that matches my current installation, but a working > build to start. (Otherwise I won't know if the kernel I'm running and > one I've modified contain anything I don't know about....) > > I used the config that the installed version had as my base, and I don't > think I changed anything. I ran make menuconfig and set the version to > something different, then ran make oldconfig to see what changes were > needed (none), then built. In theory, if lvm support was in the > installed kernel, it should have built into my new one, right? > Do You have an initrd file for new kernel? If not You should create one with mkinird. hth -- Marcin Mazurek http://www.netsync.pl/ - :::: - nic-hdl: MM3380-RIPE GnuPG 6687 E661 98B0 AEE6 DA8B 7F48 AEE4 776F 5688 DC89 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos