successfull kernel build:where to go?

[Tyler Littlefield]

hello,
I've got it compiled, and set up in the menu.lst.
Now when I boot, it works (grub shows it.) then it says it's searching for 
the root filesystem.
Any ideas?


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: successfull kernel build:where to go?


> Tyler,
>
> Look for mkinitramfs.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:47:30AM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> I've got a successfull kernel build with modules and the image.
>> I was told before to use mkinitrd, which does not seem to be supported.
>> I'm not totally sure how to go about setting up my initrd, which is the
>> last step.
>> I read that yaird could scan for the modules specific to my system, which
>> is something I'd like to do. Any pointers would be great. I've checked
>> around, and found info about mkinitrd, but yaird doesn't even seem to be
>> a package anymore... apt-cache search yaird doesn't find it, anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>> web: tysdomain-com
>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>
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