Hi, I've been rebuilding the kernel for about 4 times and none of them have worked.
The problem is when I try to start it in grub, the option is there "Test kernel (2.6.7)" but when i highlight it and select it, it just shows me the path that i put of the bzImage and the vmlinux and stop.
It just do nothing
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The last time I rebuilded I did the following:
I downloaded the patch bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.7-rc3.diff from the official page of bootsplash.
I added the patch:
patch p1</pathtopatch/bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.7-rc3.diff
I belived it worked because it didn't showed me any errors.
Then the classic commands to rebuild:
make xconfig
The things I was supposed to check:
Device Drivers -----> Graphics Support----->Bootsplash Configuration----->Bootup splash screen
but Bootup splash screen never showed up, the option Bootsplash Configuration didn`t had any options inside of it.
so... I continued.
I also compiled into the kernel:
File systems -----> Reiserfs support
File systems -----> ext3 journalling file system support
File systems -----> kernel automounter support
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
then I copied the required files to /boot
cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.7
cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.7
I made the initial RAM Disk:
mkinitrd -k bzImage-2.6.7 -i initrd.img-2.6.7
it showed me this message:
Root device: /dev/hda2 (mounted on / as reiserfs)
Module list: reiserfs
Kernel version: 2.6.7 (i386)
Kernel image: /boot/bzImage-2.6.7
Initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7
Shared libs: lib/i686/libc.so.6 lib/ld-2.3.2.so
Cannot determine dependencies of module reiserfs. Is modules.dep up to date?
Modules:
none
Bootsplash: SuSE (1024x768)
after that I edited the file /boot/grub/menu.lst adding the following lines:
title Test Kernel (2.6.7)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage-2.6.7 root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop showopts
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.7
At the end, when I try to start the new kernel from Grub, it showed me a black screen where nothing happends, even the light of the hd was off.
Whats wrong???