Kernel patching 2.4.7-2
 

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.......

Try going to kernel.org and getting the kernel you need and building that. Much easier to do than trying to patch your kernel.

Cheers--
Charles

I have a 2.4.19-16mdk kernel in another partition can I use it??

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??

If you are running mandrake, and you have the complete source you can certainly try. But who knows until you try?

Cheers--
Charles

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 :confused:

To make a new boot floppy:
cd /lib/modules
ls and see what is listed
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 kernel_as_listed_above

mkbootdisk may be located in /sbin.