Trying to compile my own kernel - getting kernel panic...

[Andrew Konosky]

William Hooper wrote:

>Andrew Konosky said:
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>>I tried yum install mkinitrd,
>>but it couldn't find any packages.
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>According to your other post your yum config is borked anyway.
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>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/mkinitrd-4.1.18-2.i386.rpm
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>More likely (since the kernel requires mkinitrd), your original problem is
>a path problem.  mkinitrd lives in /sbin/mkinitrd.
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>Either that or more than your yum config is borked.
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I seem to already have mkinitrd installed, but it wasn't registering 
with su. I did su - and then it worked, so I guess I just forgot the - 
the first time. I created a initrd that lets me boot, but I still have 
some work to do on configuring some misc. modules.