gentoo kernel upgrade problems

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:40:57 -0600, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:

> That was it!  I copied the bzImage to /boot and called it kernel-2.6.9 and
> pointed the grub.conf at it and now I have progressed to a kernel panic.  I
> will defer this until after the final on Tuesday.  I thought this would be
> quick and easy, being gentoo and all....
> 

Hard to say without aditional evidence, but the most likely reason for
a kernel panic is that you forgot to compile your fs support (ext2/3,
xfs, reiserfs, etc.) as builtin rather than as module. If, for
example, your started on gentoo using genkernel, that procedure builds
everything as modules and requires an initrd.

HTH,

-- 
 Collins