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I have 2.4.7-2 in redflag, I also have intel82830 graphic chip which is not supported in the kernel but intel has the driver avilable which I have downloaded, now this driver requires kernel 2.4.11 so i thought patching would be the way to go i downloaded patches 2.4.8 to 2.4.12 but the very first patch find 90% of the files missing, I saw it was looking for a /linux/ directory but I have a /linux-2.4.7-2/ directory and a symbolic link /linux-2.4/ so I did
$ln -s ./linux-2.4.7-2 ./linux
and tried again, its still the same, any ideas where I am going wrong?? I placed the patch in the directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.7-2/
and did bzip2 -dc patch2.4.8.bz2 | patch -p0
and also tried the ./script/make-patch thing.
Ur suggestions will be highly appreciated.......
I have a 2.4.19-16mdk kernel in another partition can I use it?? I mean can I copy the /lib/src/2.4.19-16mdk/ directory to /usr/src/ directoty in the other system and do a make config and make dep on it??
ok then lets find out out....
ill do a make xconfig
make dep
make modules
make bzImage
make modules_install
then cp the bzimage to the /boot dir
and then ?? do i set lilo up to boot from the new image instead of vmlinuz or what??
but I boot from floppy how do I make my floppy use the new image???
Thanks once more
okay i tried everything went well except for this:
Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root file system on 03:04
any ideas??
That was after using the disk created by bzdisk, the old floppy disk still boots the system to the older kernel
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