Confused-finishing 2.6.2 install

[Brian Millett]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 20:47 +1000, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Friday 06 February 2004 8:37 pm, Scott Fones wrote:
> > I'm a little confused.  I read the documentation and followed it though to
> > compile/install the 2.6.2 kernel from source.  I ran my make
> > modules_install and make install commands with no problems.  The readme now
> > says to copy the /arch/i386/boot/bzImage to where my bootable kernal image
> > is found.  So, I opened up /etc/grub.conf so see where it looks and it has
> > two files it looks for in /boot. for a vmlinuz* file and an initrd* file. 
> > From the looks of it the bzImage is renamed to vmlinuz, but thats just my
> > inference from the directions.  My real problem is I have no idea where the
> > initrd* file comes from.  Can anyone help me finish off this installation,
> > this is my first time compiling a kernel and it was going so smoothly.
> 
> Just run make install 

I had the same problem.  You have to have the "loop" module loaded or
the mkinitrd will fail and you will not have it.  Just do a "modprobe
loop".
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