Boot after kernel recompile

[Juan L. Pastor]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 09:47, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Juan L. Pastor asked:
> > Where does the /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img file and the line
> > initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img
> > enter in this story? Are they not supposed to make the translation of
> > the label name into the real filesystem?
> 
> They're made by mkinitrd.
> 
> As the name suggests, they need to be custom-made for the kernel you're
> running. Is that really the kernel you're running? (Any reason why
> you're not on 2.8.1?) Otherwise they won't work...

[jlpastor at kalimotxo jlpastor]$ ll /boot/
total 5304
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   46375 May  8 15:21 config-2.6.5-1.358
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Aug 31 09:19 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  289645 Aug 22 20:08 initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  197261 Aug 31 09:19
initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img
drwx------  2 root root   12288 Aug 22 22:06 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      32 Aug 31 09:19 System.map ->
System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  239593 May  8 15:21 System.map-2.6.5-1.358
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  702528 Aug 31 09:19
System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  658171 Aug 25 09:07
System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.old
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      29 Aug 31 09:19 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1199031 May  8 15:21 vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1065172 Aug 31 09:19
vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  984930 Aug 25 09:07
vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.old
[jlpastor at kalimotxo jlpastor]$ uname -a
Linux kalimotxo.euskal.net 2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom #1 Tue Aug 31 08:50:03
CEST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

They were created when I recompiled the kernel, that's why I don't
understand that it doesn't translate the LABEL=/ into /dev/hdc2, like
2.6.5-1.358 kernel.

I'm not working with 2.8.1 kernel yet because I didn't have time to
download it.

Juan

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