Comment 43 for bug 199934

I'm trying to test if the gdth SCSI disk controller still dumps at the end
of /sbin/poweroff or /sbin/reboot .

I don't routinely compile kernels but I have been successful in the past,
so I thought I would try.

I have built the 2.6.24.2 kernel:
 cp /boot/config-2.6.24-19-generic /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.2/.config

 make all
 make install
 make modules-intstall

and got
 /boot/System.map-2.6.24.2
 /boot/config-2.6.24.2
 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.2

But I don't think I built the initramfs properly. I used
 update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.24.2
to create
 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.2

But the results look _very_big_ when compared to the others:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7907485 2008-08-13 14:56 initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49159103 2008-08-16 16:30 initrd.img-2.6.24.2

(hd0,5) is a SCSI disk
from /boot/grub/menu.lst

 title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24.2 Hardy
 root (hd0,5)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.2 \
  root=UUID=c3bf9923-8fd9-45fe-9c7d-929644751f79 ro vga=791
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.2
 quiet
 savedefault

And when I start the kernel, I see Grub flash Starting Up
and then nothing; no image, no disk rattle.

Does anyone see what I'm missing?

--
 Mike Bianchi