Hi Everyone, I know this is probably the newbiest of questions, but I am trying to compile and boot off of the kernel. I am running Arch Linux and I am following this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels/Traditional_compilation Despite using "linux480" below (I tried this a few weeks ago), the kernel version I am using is Linux 4.9.0-rc3 "Psychotic Stoned Sheep" (I love these names). I use systemd-boot as a boot loader. 1) Pulled down kernel from git 2) Ran make localmodconfig 3) Ran make menuconfig and changed the local version to a custom string 4) Ran make 5) Ran sudo make modules_install 6) Ran sudo cp arch/x86_64/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-linux480 7) Added /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux480.preset, which is similar to linux.preset except with linux480 names 8) Ran mkinitcpio -p linux480 9) Ran sudo cp System.map /boot/System.map-linux480 10) Added entry file to /boot/entries called linux480 and used the current entry as a template 11) Rebooted and selected linux480 Now I am thrown into the recovery shell with an 'Unable to find root device /dev/sdc2' (my SSD). The real strange thing is that the (PS/2) keyboard doesn't work, so I can't even run commands. Tried also USB keyboard to no avail. I also have a bunch of "Unknown symbol" errors from scsi_mod which fill most of the screen. I'm thinking the RAM disk is bad, but not sure. No amount of Google-fu was able to help me out with this one. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! -Daniel