[Cialug] Re: kernel 2.4.x

[David Weis <djweis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

your partitions are probably still formatted as ext2, so you will have to
convert them somehow. 

dave

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, E Cameron wrote:

> Got a new hard drive this weekend and decided to switch to the Reiser file 
> system with the new drive.
> Everything went fine until I started messing with the 2.4.0 kernel.  I 
> untarred it into /usr/src  ran through the configuration.  Told it to make 
> bzImage.  That went ok, had a hell of a time with it making the modules - 
> something about the serial modules not being compiled.  Sorted that out and 
> got it to compile the modules.
> Used the Linuxconf routine to add the new kernel and rebooted.
> 
> Kernel panic were it could not mount the hard drive.  I read through the 
> READ me file. removed the 2.4 sources and moved them to a tmp directory. 
> tried again. More problems with compiling. After I sorted those out again, 
> I rebooted and got the same thing. Figured I was still missing something 
> with the Reiser file system in the configuration of the kernel.
> 
> Re-installed everything and went back to the  normal Linux partition type. 
> This time I had no problems with compiling the 2.4 kernel sources, however 
> I still got a kernel panic - different than the first attempts.  This time 
> the kernel panic said it couldn't open an initial console.
> 
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here?  I checked to make sure I have the 
> proper versions of certain programs as outlined in the Changes file.  I run 
> Mandrake 7.2.
> 
> 
> ed
> 
> 

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