On Thursday 17 September 2009 16:51:59 Graeme Hilton wrote:
> 2009/9/17 Vic <lug@???>:
> >> I've put a fairly poor shot of the remainder of the boot screen on
> >> flickr [1].
> >
> > It's not all that clear, is it? :-)
>
> Camera phone... needs must ;-)
>
> >> Maybe there's a further hint in there. I notice the "Trying to
> >> resume" line and it can't find that partition either.
> >
> > Of greater worry to me is the line something[1] like : "moving /dev
> > failed: No such file or directory".
> >
> > Have you checked your initrd to make sure it's got everything it needs?
>
> mkinitrd is a bit of a mystery to me. I assume that the "make
> install" part of a kernel build will run the correct commands to
> create the right initrd. How can I go about checking what's in there?
>
This may be pointing out the obvious, but how did you compile the kernal? Have
you used an appropriate settings file? On Debian (squeeze) there is a
/boot/config-2.6.30 (also other versions), which contains the Debian options
for the kernel build. You need to use this file when configuring the new kenel,
or it will only have support for the default options. Lack of this
configuration at build may well cause boot problems.
Tim B.
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