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> I'm having trouble customizing my kernel and was hoping someone could give
> me some idea of what's going wrong.
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> I'll list my procedure for this:
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> 1. I log in as root and cd to /usr/src/linux-2.4 and run mkproper
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> 2. I copy the kernel-2.4.20-athlon.config file into my linux-2.4

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> from my config directory
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> 3. I run make xconfig then I save and exit
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> 4. I run make dep and make clean
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> 5. I run make bzImage, make modules, and make module_install
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> 6. Then it's make install and check my /boot/grub/grub.conf file and make
> sure everything is ok and it is.
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> I went through this procedure twice so far after deleting the first custom
> kernel after I got an error the first time.
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> I noticed on my second attempt that when I ran the make install command

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> last line was:
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> mv: cannot stat vmlinuz or something very close to that but both times I
> tried to boot the new custom kernel after a considerable way through the
> boot process I get the error:
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00
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> Could someone please give me an idea of what's going wrong? Does it have
> something to do with my vmlinuz file?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dan
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> I'm running 9
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> thanks
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