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Old 03-16-2006, 01:20 AM   #1
NewtonIX
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Cant upgrade kernel


Been trying to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.15.6 to no avail
I followed the steps in the sticky but I get nothing.

In fact I truly get "Nothing"

When i try to boot to the 2.6 image after the "BIOS data Check successfull" I get a blank screen, and that is where it sits until i reboot.

anyone have any insight as to why this maybe happening? I am at wits end.
 
Old 03-16-2006, 01:29 AM   #2
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=425184

I used the guy because I also couldn't see shit!
 
Old 03-16-2006, 01:32 AM   #3
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I get a blank screen
means something to do with frame buffer support
and the graphix drivers (in the device driver section)
do an lspci, note the devices and compile according to tht,

this is my small how to on kernel compile
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download the kernel source to ur home/build/ dir
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v...2.6.15.tar.bz2
say /home/xxxx/build (u have a dir called build in home. $mkdir build ..wil do)
now u r in /home/xxxx/build$,
$wget -c http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v...2.6.15.tar.bz2
$tar -xvjf linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2
(if needed, u can create a simlink as we do in /usr/src,
$ln -sf linux-2.6.15/ linux)
$cd linux-2.6.15/ directory, then issue:
Code:
$ make menuconfig (from text node)
       {make xconfig or gconfig, i do gconfig 
       -both this are    for xwindow} 
     (make your changes then save the file)
        --->how simple!! it will take some time if doing first time, 
        if u read the helps a day week .... 
$ make
then su to root and
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.15 ; ln -sf /boot/System.map-2.6.15 /boot/S
ystem.map
# make modules_install
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15
# lilo <----before doing this edit lilo
# reboot <--if u want to try this kernel
editin lilo
---------
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15
root = /dev/hda1 <-- put your / (root/boot) partition here
label = 2.6.15 <-- or lin2.6
read-only
-------------

Last edited by rkrishna; 03-16-2006 at 02:01 AM.
 
Old 03-16-2006, 02:06 AM   #4
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Awesome I found the answer, setting the vga mode to normal in lilo worked butnow I can see where it is actually dying.

Im getting the Kernel panic that it cant find the place to mount the root dir.

Someone mentioned it could be because resier support isnt compiled into it but im using ext2 with ide drives so i am agian lost lol
 
Old 03-16-2006, 02:23 AM   #5
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ext2 with ide drives so i am agian lost lol
something to do with filesytem support, whenever i get this mess, i tried to fogureout the problem, til now i dint get it (specifically) but i could solve the problem in next compile

filesytem support ex2, some scsi support, partition support --check all these
 
Old 03-16-2006, 02:47 AM   #6
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Blank screen can be caused by two things:

1) as rkrishna pointed, it can be avoided by switching off frambuffer support, splash screen, etc.
2) It can be caused by wrong CPU settings. check this.

In case 1), you will get a workable system most of the time despite being unable to see anything at boot time, just after booting into the X. In case 2) your box will actually freeze.

Other cause for this behaviour can be overclocking and wrong BIOS settings. Set both to default before rebuilding the kernel.
 
Old 03-16-2006, 12:21 PM   #7
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EDITED-- Nevermind I am going to just use a more desktop orientated distro i guess and save good ole slack for the servers.

Last edited by NewtonIX; 03-16-2006 at 10:44 PM.
 
  


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