I am using Red Hat9(2.4 kernel) to build LFS(Linux from scratch).I have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.

Execution steps :
1. copy the kernel source found in /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 to /home directory
2. copy the files kd.h console_struct.h, consolemap.h, vt_kern.h from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux as console_struct.h.old, consolemap.h.old, vt_kern.h.old, kd.h.old
3. copy the files consolemap.c, console.c, vt.c from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/drivers/char as consolemap.c.old, console.c.old, vt.c.old
4. copy the package consoletools, multiglyph, psftools to /home directory and untar the packages
5. copy the consolemap.c, console.c, vt.c from /multiglyph/kernel/drivers/char to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/drivers/char. overwrite it
6. copy the kd.h, console_struct.h, consolemap.h, vt_kern.h from /multiglyph/kernel/include/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/drivers/char and overwrite it
7. cd /home/linux-2.4.20-8/ and give the commands - make mrproper, make oldconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, make install. den reboot ur system and select the new kernel image.

The kernel image not booting. I am getting kernel panic errors for console drivers. How to correct dis error.

8. install consoletools packages and psftools (cd consoletools, ./configure, make, make install)
9. install multiglyph package (cd multiglyph, ./install - asks for input path for kernel and input path for language - give /home/linux-2.4.20-8, language-just press enter . reboot the system and select the new kernel image.
10. create a directory named kannada in /usr/local/lib/LLI. copy the kannada.kmap, kannada.prf, kannada.psf to /usr/local/liblLLI/kannada
11. cd multiglyph/bin/
cp starthindi.sh startkannada.sh
vi startkannada.sh, change loadlang hindi to loadlang kannada
./startkannada.sh
12. Also I have upgraded the kannada package consoletools, psf tools, multiglyph tools to 2.6kernel by using diff

while executing redhat9(2.4) , I got errors like dis

loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.map.gz
cannot find a default font file
loading /usr/local/lib/LLI/kannada/kannada.kmap
language set to kannada

In LFS(6.2), I got errors like dis

loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.map.gz
cannot find a default font file
set_kernel_font() - Invalid argument
loading /usr/local/lib/LLI/kannada/kannada.kmap
language set to kannada


How to correct this error. Is kannada.prf and kannada.psf files are standard files. Can we make modifications to these files. If kannada.psf n kannada.prf are standard files then can we modify kannada.kmap file den hw.

Impossible to tell without the errors...Executing RH9 ... how? Perhaps you mean "booting"?

It seems you are posting from india? (kannada keymap)
Anyway, the message goes away when you configure a default keymap.



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