unable to boot an new kernel

[shariefbe]

Hi..i am using ubuntu 7.10 distro...in that the preinstalled kernel is "linux-2.6.22-14 generic"...after that i planned to compile an new kernel...so i downloaded from kernel.org....the new kernel which i download is "linux-2.6.22.14"...so i compiled that new kernel an d\tried to install...so that i followed the below steps

#cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.14
#make menuconfig
#make
#make modules
#make modules_install
#make install

after this commands i opened this /boot/grub/menu.lst and i added the below lines extra which i given in the block letters...

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=7ef4f8ec-7dd3-4c02-9f24-c9438e6b8bce ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=7ef4f8ec-7dd3-4c02-9f24-c9438e6b8bce ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title My Custom Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.14 root=/dev/hda1 ro

title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

but now i am unable to boot from new kernel..when i select the new kernel means i am getting the following error

starting up.....
uncompressing linux...ok,booting the kernel
[ 53.987716]kernel panic - not syncing: VFS : unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0.0)

so i dont know what to do...can any one suggest me what to do and how to do...cause i am new to linux...

[waterhead]

It looks as if you are missing the initrd file. I don't know how to create it in Ubuntu, but here are two Ubuntu How-To's, with slightly different methods listed.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelCustomBuild
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

It looks like the "make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=2.6.24.14" is the command that would do it. You may want to follow the How-To's more closely, as I have no experience doing this in Ubuntu/Debian. I'm a Fedora/SuSE guy.

[waterhead]

I just realized that this is a duplicate post. That is forbidden by forum rules. The original post can be found here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...ew-kernel.html

I am closing and locking this thread.