[Gllug] HIGHMEM

[Thomas Charles Robinson]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:15, Luke Hopkins wrote:
> Following on from this:
> It would appear that I wasn't in fact booting the correct kernel (I
> know, I know). However that has led me to a new problem.
> Based on the standard raid.s kernel, I have made the single change of
> selecting the correct processor (instead of generic 486). A compile
> later, and I get a kernel panic (unable to mount root FS).
> Much googling has some suggestions, but no solutions.
> 
> What I'm thinking is that the recompiled kernel isn't finding something,
> either a scsi device, raid device or ext3 fs. Unfortunately I can't
> scroll the console back far enough to get an answer on this.
> 

Are you using raid on the root FS and is raid compiled into the kernel
or a module? You may need to make an initial ramdisk for you new kernel
to load up support for the filesystem the kernel expects to mount during
the boot cycle (this may include things like ext3.o etc.). mkinitrd
might help.


t.

A boy scout troop went on a hike. Crossing over a stream, one of the
boys dropped his wallet into the water. Suddenly a carp jumped, grabbed
the wallet and tossed it to another carp. Then that carp passed it to
another carp, and all over the river carp appeared and tossed the wallet
back and forth. "Well, boys," said the Scout leader, "you've just seen a
rare case of carp-to-carp walleting."
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