[Cbe-oss-dev] Kernel Install warnings

[Adam Clark]

Geert,
  This is how I got to where I am:

$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
$ cd ps3-linux
$ make ps3_defconfig; make; make install

How should I make an initrd?

Regards

Adam


On Jan 11, 2008 7:23 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Adam Clark wrote:
> >   I just had my first attempt at a kernel build from the git source
> > and while there were no errors but it got to the nash screen and could
> > not boot.
> >
> > I am compiling a kernel for fedora 8 to hopefully get the wireless going
> >
> > my yaboot entry is:
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce
> >         label=ps3
> >         read-only
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce.img
> >         append="video=ps3fb:mode:3 rhgb quiet root=/dev/ps3da1"
> >
> > but it could not mount the root file system, citing root=/dev/root
> > could not be found.
> >
> > Could it have anything to do with the following warnings I recieve
> > upon make install
> >
> > WARNING: No module ehci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce,
> > continuing anyway
> > WARNING: No module ohci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce,
> > continuing anyway
> > WARNING: No module uhci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce,
> > continuing anyway
> > WARNING: No module ps3rom found for kernel 2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce,
> > continuing anyway
> > WARNING: No module ps3disk found for kernel 2.6.24-rc7-gf565a2ce,
> > continuing anyway
>
> Ps3disk is indeed needed to find the root file system. If it's modular, it must
> be loaded by the initrd.  How do you make the initrd?
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven
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