kernel upgrade
ok just one little question!
what am I doing wrong? I have just compiled my first kernel and cant get it to boot! I am upgrading to version 2.4.19 I have done everything it says to do at www.milkywaygalaxy.freeservers.com but still cant get it to boot. I built the image using the command: nohup make bzImage & tail -f nohup.out from the /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 directory. Im wondering if it has something to do with the options i chose in xconfig? when I chose my new kernel to boot fron lilo it starts off ok the last thing it says is: Uncompressing Linux...Ok, booting kernel. and then it stops with a blank line? My system confing is: AMD Athlon 1700Xp 512mb DDR 40Gb Maxtor hdd soltek mainboard geforce 2 ti creative sound blaster live 5.1 realtek nic if anyone is able to give me some suggestions on this they are most welcome, because i have no idea what is going wrong? (even reading books doesnt seem to give me much help!!) also if you could give me some tips concerning the xconfig? cheers guys |
Anyone who follows instructions from milkyway galaxy (aka the guy who makes websites with linux kernel 2.0.36, the html of milkyway galaxy website had
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]">) must be braindead You needa enable ext3 in xconfig as most distros use ext3 |
Also what distro do u use?
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Also your supposted to just use:
make bzImage Not anything other onto the make bzImage command |
Im using Redhat 7.2
i think that nohup command lets you view the output? thanx for the help i will continue to try new things! considering i have an amd athlon xp do i still choose athlon in the xconfig? just wondering? |
Aha, and nohup is very usefull you can send the job to background and keep you terminal clean
nohup make bzImage & and then you can view nohup.out in the current directory if the current directory is not writable nohup.out is saved in ~/nohup.out if it is impossible too nohup quits. |
For Red Hat 7.2/7.3 you need to enable ext3
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where do I enable ext3 ?
is it in the xconfig? which section? sorry have searched through all the questions in xconfig and i cant find it! thanx again |
where do I enable ext3 ?
is it in the xconfig? which section? sorry have searched through all the questions in xconfig and i cant find it! thanx again |
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