NewBie Problem in Kernel 2.6.15
 

Well my story is the same as many users that try to slowly migrate to Linux mine starts like this :
I installed linux slackware in my laptop( Lg Lw65) , everything went well but i saw that slackware does not detect my network device Marvel Yukon so i try to compile the new kernel 2.6.15 when i was at the end in the lilo configuration appear this error :
fatal : Open /boot/bzImage : No such file or directory

Can you guys give me a big hand on this

Many thanks

BTW: sorry my lousy english

did you finish the compiling steps and did you run lilo after you copied over the new kernel?

Yes i compiled and when was the last part to config lilo to call the new kernel lilo send the error that i tould .

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Your first paragraph/post reads just fine...
I don't understand that last sentence/post at all. I appreciate that English may not be your first language, but puting a period or 2 in there and explaining what is happening might help ;)

A few questions:
Do you have /boot on a seperate partition? (If you don't know, then you probably don't)
Can you post up your /etc/lilo.conf so we can see it's contents and give advice on what to change?
Can you also post up what this returns:
ls -lh /boot

Cool

Once again sorry for my lousy english i will try furter to be more carefull :


No i dont have the /boot on a separte partition

My /etc/lilo.conf :

# Linux Bootable partition Begins
image = /boot/vmlinux-generic-linux-2.6.15
root = /dec/hda2
Label = Linux


ls -lh /boot return with :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2005-12-27 18:30 Readme.initrd --> /usr/doc/mkinitrd-1.0.1/readme.initrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root system.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root system.map-ide-2.4.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root system.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root boot.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root config -> config-ide-2.4.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root config-ide-2.4.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root diagl.img
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root initrd-tree
-rw------- 1 root root initrd.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root linux-2.6.15 -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.15.15/
-rw------- 1 root root map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root vmlinuz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root vmlinuz-ide-2.4.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root vmlinuz.old

So where is vmlinux-generic-linux-2.6.15

what i should put in /etc/lilo.conf to call the new kernel ??

Your main problem at the moment is that the kernel image you're trying to set up doesn't seem to exist. From your /etc/lilo.conf, Lilo is trying to launch the kernel found at /boot/vmlinux-generic-linux-2.6.15. However, from your listing, there is no file of that filename. (I'm also guessing that /boot/bzImage was supposed to point to this at some stage - it's also missing, and was referred to in the initial error message).

As T.H.su asked, whereabouts has your new kernel gone? That's the first thing to sort out right now.

well :confused: what should i do :( ?

To a certain extent that depends on where the kernel image went...

However, if you compiled it quite recently, it should still hopefully be located at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage, and you can copy it back into the /boot directory (as vmlinux-generic-linux-2.6.15). That's the first step to being able to boot the kernel - getting it in a place where Lilo can point to it.

Also, I've noticed that your lilo.conf has "root=/dec/hda2" - this could be either a typo in copying it up, or in the file itself, but in any case it should be "root=/dev/hda2".