[vox-tech] Grub question

[Jonathan Stickel]

Have you read through "building a custom kernel" section of the the Red 
Hat customization manual?  Here is the 7.2 version:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/

It explains a few of these details, although not enough to trouble shoot 
if you have a particular problem.

Jonathan


Ryan wrote:
> I downgraded to gcc 2.95 and the kernel compiles now, so now I am trying to
> install it. I kept getting errors during the boot up, some of which included "no
> ext3 support" but I'm assuming that can be fixed by adding extra options into
> the menuconfig. I want to use the grub and I'm seeing this in the grub.conf
> 
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.7.x)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x ro root=/dev/hda1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.7.x.img
> 
> I want to add my new kernel /boot/bzImage
> I was wondering what the last line with the initrd does. I couldn't find
> anywhere online that was particularly useful about what this does. So currently
> in my conf file I have
> 
> title Red Hat Linux (mine)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=/dev/hda1
> 
> Previously I was using up2date on Red Hat 7.2 to update my kernel.
> 
> -ryan
> 
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