Hi All,
I pulled the latest 2.6.23 changes to my local git repository and

compiled a fresh kernel.

The kernel boots fine but seem to be waiting for root filesystem.

The system is very much responsive at this stage, capslock, numlock

etc keys work. Alt+ctrl+del reboots the system fine.
My system is a Pentium D processor, with a SATA hard disk running

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
Few points worth mentioning FWIW -

- My root partition has ext3 filesystem.

- This is config i tweaked after doing a make oldconfig from a 2.6.18

kernel, which can be found at the end of this mail.

- Even a make oldconfig with a working 2.6.23-rc5 does not seem to

work. Same problem arises.

- output of name -a

 Linux blufox 2.6.18-test #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 17:09:42 IST 2007

i686 GNU/Linux

- gcc version

 gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
Did something got changes which i forgot to take care of? or am i

missing something pretty obvious here?
PS - Please CC me, i am not subscribed to the list.
thanks

--pradeep

My .config is as below -

#

# Automatically generated make config: don't edit

# Linux kernel version: 2.6.23

# Wed Oct 10 10:26:51 2007

#

CONFIG_X86_32=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y

CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y

CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y

CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y

CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y

CONFIG_X86=y

CONFIG_MMU=y

CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y

CONFIG_QUICKLIST=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y

CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y

CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y

CONFIG_DMI=y

CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
#

# General setup

#

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y

CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y

CONFIG_SWAP=y

CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y

CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL=y

CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y

# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set

# CONFIG_TASKSTATS is not set

# CONFIG_USER_NS is not set

# CONFIG_AUDI...
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i have successfully built and booted a config derived from your config,

on similar hardware. The only change is that i switched on some drivers

by default and turned off some - the modified config is attached. Could

you try this modified config, does it boot fine for you? (One crutial

difference is that it uses CONFIG_SATA/PATA instead of CONFIG_IDE, so

you might have to change /dev/hdax to /dev/sdax in your /etc/grub.conf,

for the entry of the _new_ kernel only - if your system is not fs-label

based.)
	Ingo

On 10/11/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply Ingo. Did not get a chance to check mails.

Anyway i tried your config and with a little additional tweaking it works great.
Thanks for the help Ingo.
Best Regards

--

Pradeep

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