Any help would be great! This will be a long post!
My goal is to accomplish a fresh Slackware 11 install with the latest stable 2.6 kernel (2.6.21.4) as of this posting. To date I usually do a full install of slackware, then use the default bare.i kernel that is on the cd. Once I get xwin working (xorgconfig) and make sure my serial mouse, nic, cd and sound are working I have a great running machine... Then theres the 2.6 kernel... (
imagine jaws theme music here)
I have sucessfully installed the 2.6 kernel by following the instructions below:
(one question before reading the steps I take, at the point of make menuconfig is this where I choose the modules to install? I just go through and turn off all scsi option because I have no scsi devices, all the other stuff is mostly greek to me so i dont mess with any of it)
pico /etc/lilo.conf
Add this to your lilo.conf
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
root = /dev/hda1
label = slack.old
read-only
Note: Replace /dev/hda1 with the correct location of your root partition.
Now we need to edit the Makefile to make sure your new kernel is copied to the appropriate directory.
Open /usr/src/linux/Makefile in a text editor, scroll to line 74 and
uncomment the the line #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot.
So...cd /usr/src/linux
pico Makefile
scroll to line 74 and
uncomment the the line #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot.
make menuconfig (make your changes here...when done, save your new configuration)
make dep (sets all the kernel dependencies)
make clean (removes un-needed files)
make bzImage (builds the kernel)
make
make install (installs, moves and renames all the needed files and updates lilo)
make modules (builds all the kernel modules)
make modules_install (installs the modules)
Note: The 'make install' command is the one that most don't use but it works fine in slackware as long as you have prepared lilo.conf and edited Makefile according to the instructions above.
Reboot!
Once having done this I can successfully boot 2.6 kernel! YAY!
BUT, nothing works... No mouse, no network card, and I get an AGP error that zooms by when the kernel is booting. There is no telling what else is not working as well (usb?). Apparently I have no modules I am guessing. If my nic and mouse arent working, I presume neither is my cd or sound so I dont even bother trying those. KDE will start, but once again I have no mouse and KDE with no mouse is pretty annoying. Takes me an hour to figure out the right keystrokes to navigate without a mouse. I've tried modprobe in it's various forms to no avail.
What I would really like is a clean full install, that goes as smooth as a 2.4 kernel install, with modules and all. My machine is a normal old Pent4 2.6 with IDE hd's and cd. A Chaintech AGP Nvidia video and a 3com 3c905* nic. Nothing unusal in the hardware dept.
So when doing a clean install, and it asks me for the disk1 that has the 2.4 bare.i kernel, at this point can I put in a disk that has the newly downloaded 2.6 kernel and go from there? How do I make sure it installs the modules for my serial mouse, agp video, nic and sound? Can I burn the 2.6 kernel to a disk with the modules in tgz fashion and do it that way?
It bothers me to do a 2.4 install then a 2.6 install. I'm one of those anal guys that likes only what I want on a machine and when I do it the 2.4 to 2.6 way I know, and it bothers me, that I have 2.4 kernel remnents on my hd...
Please keep any replys simple for this simpleton!
