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You need to get a bootable kernel as a benchmark and work up from there.
Can you boot anything from /dev/hdb6? Sounds like it's not near the beginning of the drive. there was that old problem with the 1024M limit which was fixed with the 'lba32' entry in lilo.
Can you take the test 2.6 from cd #2, compile it just as it is, and boot with it? (if you have reiserfs as root fs it needs an initrd for sure)
I could boot in the new kernel and get upto CLI.
But the startx command gives the following error:
"
(EE): GARTInit : Unable to open /dev/agpgart
No such device
(EE): I 810 (0) : AGPGART support is not available.
Make sure your kernel has agpgart support or that agpgart kernel module is loaded
(EE): Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration.
"
I have now the 2.6.17.11 kernel working.
One last thing is that I have to correct the eth0 so that I could connect to the net.
I hope I could do this shortly.
Location: Argentina, corrientes (far from buenos aires, to the north)
Distribution: Ubuntu :(
Posts: 74
Rep:
did you chose for your .config the right drivers for your ethernet card chipset?
if so, then u have to know what to do in order to connect. in my case is.
Just one step short of 100 % success.
I could not get my adsl modem working.
I checked to enable Realtek RTL 8139 but still no success.
The pppoe-setup command gives no error.
But on pppoe-start, the modem does not blink at all and I get the time-out error.
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