2.6.10 no boot

[Marcello Stanisci]

I already have a kernel that runs without initrd. Anyway, the use of
initrd doesn't depend on your distro.

Additional information: passing option "earlyprintk" to the kernel
does not show anything.
The system just reboots after showing "Uncompressing Linux.."

2014-04-05 17:22 GMT+02:00 Corey Sheldon <sheldon.corey at gmail.com>:
> even for debian
>
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> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Corey Sheldon <sheldon.corey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> per this page as well it indicates a initrd line
>> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId542243
>>
>> Corey W Sheldon
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>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Marcello Stanisci <stanisci.m at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a kernel line, see "menuentry" in my grub.cfg.
>>> I don't have a initrd entry, but it should not be required
>>>
>>> 2014-04-05 16:53 GMT+02:00 Corey Sheldon <sheldon.corey at gmail.com>:
>>> > missing the kernel line brother see below: (edit for your setup as
>>> > needed..
>>> >
>>> > linux /vmlinuz-3.14.0-1.vanilla.mainline.knurd.1.fc20.i686
>>> > root=/dev/mapper/luks-35c3bcf7-802e-4aba-b62f-cf17b01d54cb ro
>>> > rd.luks.uuid={snipped}
>>> >
>>> > initrd /initramfs-3.14.0-1.vanilla.mainline.knurd.1.fc20.i686.img
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > Corey W Sheldon
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>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Marcello Stanisci
>>> > <stanisci.m at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear All,
>>> >>
>>> >> I built a linux kernel 2.6.10. When grub tries to execute it the
>>> >> system shows the message:
>>> >>
>>> >> Uncompressing Linux..
>>> >>
>>> >> and then reboots in a very Spartan way.
>>> >>
>>> >> My suspects are that a modern bootloader tries to boot an older
>>> >> (although respectful) kernel. In facts grub does some
>>> >> preliminar, and mysterious to me, work prior to launch the kernel.
>>> >>
>>> >> In the following links you will find my .config and an excerpt of my
>>> >> grub.cfg. As an additional information, the same happens on two
>>> >> machines of mine (both having a debian wheezy), so the problem should
>>> >> not be related to hardware.
>>> >>
>>> >> .config -->    http://www.polarhome.com:753/~marcello/.config
>>> >> grub.cfg -->  http://www.polarhome.com:753/~marcello/grub.cfg
>>> >>
>>> >> In just one word: HELP
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks in Advance.
>>> >>
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