I've been trying to install an LFS installation on a EPIA ME6000 motherboard which has the C3 based processor. I tried building the kernel following the instructions in the LFS book (6.2), and set the processor to the correct one in the menu. I wasn't too sure about the other kernel settings in the menu, but tried not to change things from the defaults if in doubt.

Unfortunately on boot-up the kernel just falls over and restarts the machine. I decided to replace it with the kernel that came on the LiveCD (which is, I presume i386 based?), to see whether that booted, and to my pleasant surprise it did. It also gave all the useful information while booting, which my compiled one didn't. Is there a setting to turn this on?

Has anyone got a list of setting for the menuconfig for the kernel that'll work for an EPIA ME6000? Or is there something I'm doing drastically wrong.

I'm aiming for a set-up with functioning network stuff, ALSA sound, and running from flash memory.

Ta, Dave.

The LFS book recommends that you configure your own kernel as you build you LFS system. I found it prudent to copy the configuration from my host system (being openSuSE) into the linux-2.6.X directory as .config and once I had finished building the LFS system I knew the kernel configuration would be unlikely to cause any boot errors. Once the LFS system was up and running I could then create a new kernel knowing that I already had a working one installed.

Of course this might not be any help if you have no host distribution! When booting from the live CD is there a config file in the /boot directory?

It's worth noting that distros like suse have a LOT of modules enabled in the kernel so building the kernel as I have described might take a bit longer. But since you've already built GCC 3 times what's the hurry!

I copied over the .config from the LiveCD as you suggested and built the kernel using that. Lo and behold, it worked.

I suppose I'll have to compare the .config files to see what I've done differently. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff set in the LiveCD version I don't need, as the size of the LiveCD kernel was considerable larger than my original attempt.