compiled new kernel to see if machine won't freeze

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> On the machine that would freeze as soon as  I connect to the internet.  I downloaded the new kernel 2.6.27.8.  However, the kernel appeared to be compiled successfully and the grub part is created all looks well, but it does not boot :(
> 
> I get 
> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext4: No such device
> 
> The /home partition is ext3, and the /root partition is ext4.  The machine freezes with the Fedora *-117 kernel and I want to have the machine running as it should.  I built the kernel with the following commands/instructions.
> 
> make mrproper
> cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
> make menuconfig
> make all
> make modules_install
> make install
> 
> shutdown -r now
> 
> 
> The machine is x86_64 and I have built several kernels successfully before and I do not know what is going on.  I have rebuilt the kernel about 3 times and I still get the same message :(
> 
> I kindly ask for help with this machine, because I might just throw the towel with it.  
> 
If you are running a kernel.org kernel (O assume that's what you mean) I don't 
believe ext4 is there, or it's there as ext4dev module, or similar. You might 
look and see of that's the case, and load ext4dev by hand if present.

Haven't run a K.O kernel since I started using ext4 for anything, so I can't say 
for sure.

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