[ILUG] Problem booting 2.6 kernel

[Kae Verens]

Kevin Houlihan wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I've been trying to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, but no matter how 
>I set up the config, I get this error when I reboot:
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device "306" or unknown-block(3,6)
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,6)
>
>I never had this problem with my previous kernel (2.4.26), and the 
>precompiled 2.6 kernels from Debian seem to work ok. Any ideas 
>what this relates to? 
>
>--
>Kevin
>  
>
could be forgetting to do the "make install" ?

I think the old README said you could just copy the bzImage to the /boot 
partition. with 2.6, I find it's really simple to compile the kernel 
properly with just this:
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
lilo

You may not need the lilo line if you use grub.

Kae