Re: [mpls-linux-general] kernel panic with mpls-kernel.1.1 synced to 1182

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

What linux distribution are you building a kernel for?

Most likely something with modules or the initrd or something
like that is incorrectly configured, probably nothing to do with
the MPLS patch.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:05:37AM -0400, Kind, Brian W. wrote:
> I took the  suggestion and selected the mpls-kernel.1.1 source at the
> 1182 trouble report.  I had no problem building and booting with the
> kernel when I performed a "make menuconfig" and selelected no changes (I
> had previously run "make mrproper" to remove any stale .o files).
> However, when I selected the kernel option "Multiprotocol Label
> Switching", I was able to build the kernel but not boot.  The error
> message is "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknow-block(0,0)" .  I tried other builds where I changed all kernel
> modules into direct installs and that didn't help also.  I don't believe
> there is anything wrong with the grup boot loaded configuration file
> because I was able to get the kernel to work if I didn't change anything
> from the base selections.  If mpls-kernel-1.1 is more stable, what
> kernel selections can I choose or not choose to get it to boot up?
> =20
> Reply:
> Right now HOL in mpls-kernel-1.1 is danger code, untested. You'd be
> better off syncing to 1182
> p4 sync @1182
> =20
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Kind, Brian W. wrote:
> > Compile of mpls-kernel-1.1 gets an error in net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c -
>=20
> > line 436. The error is incorrect first argument type for the command
> >=20
> > "if (shim_rta_blk_cmp(nhp->rtnh.shim, ng->nh_shim)). Should the first=
=20
> > argument have an "&" infront to pass it as a pointer?
> >=20
> > Thanks
> >=20
> >=20
> =20
> =20

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James R. Leu
jl...@mi...