On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > toward the end of a class on friday, just for fun, i showed the > students how to install git, clone the latest kernel source, and build > and install a new kernel. since it was getting close to end of day, i > wanted to keep it simple and directed them to just "make defconfig" to > see what would happen. > > the configuration and build of the kernel and modules worked fine, > they installed the kernel and modules, then rebooted but the new > kernel panicked almost immediately, apparently whining that it > couldn't mount the root filesystem. since they were all running > LVM-based systems, i assumed that perhaps we needed to explicitly add > LVM support during the config step. (snip) > again, anyone else done this? should it work? i'll try this later > today as soon as i have access to my test system again. You can find the answer here :-) http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noooooo-really/ Akemi