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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:39:08
Message-Id: 1170125025.14196.9.camel@camille.espersunited.com
1 I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my
2 vanilla kernel source (2.6.11.12 - the newest patch they have for SMP
3 kernels) into /usr/src and changed the symlink. I applied the Win4Lin
4 patches. I wanted the config of my currently running kernel, so I said
5 "make oldconfig" (make oldconfig does do that, right?) I didn't turn on
6 the Win4Lin support yet because I wanted to see if I could get the old
7 kernel to work without it first. I set up the kernel in
8 my /boot/grub/grub.conf file, just like my other kernels. Pretty
9 routine. When I tried to boot with 2.6.11.12, I got this:
10 <quote>
11 Booting 'Linux 2.6.11.12'
12 root (hd0,1)
13 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83
14 kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda udev
15 Error 13: Invalid or unsupported execution format
16 </quote>
17
18 Here's my grub.conf:
19
20 default 0
21 timeout 30
22 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
23
24 title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6
25 root (hd0,1)
26 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev
27 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6
28
29 title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r4
30 root (hd0,1)
31 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev
32 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4
33
34 title=Linux 2.6.11.12
35 root (hd0,1)
36 kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev
37 initrd /initrd-2.6.11.12.img
38
39 title=Windows XP
40 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
41 makeactive
42 chainloader +1
43
44
45 I checked against /boot and all the file names are correct. I booted
46 with the top kernel, so I know those settings are correct, with the only
47 changes in the filenames. What am I missing here?
48 -Michael Sullivan-
49
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>