It's RedHat 7.2 > -----Original Message----- > ... > Hello from Gregg C Levine > I disagree most strongly. I have here, a Pentium 100Mhz based system, > running Linux, Slackware Pre-8.0 in fact. And each time I > make up a new > kernel, with "make && make install", that series of steps copies that > one to the boot locations. In fact each time the system > recommends using > one of what you suggested, but I go ahead anyway, and use those series > of steps. So, something else is wrong with his setup. Which > distribution > is it? > ... > > > -----Original Message----- > ... > > > ---- snip ----------- > > Boot 'Red Hat Linux-new (2.4.18)' > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/hda6 > > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format > > ---- snip ----------- > > How did you install the newly-constructed kernel? You should be copying > arch/i386/boot/zImage or arch/i386/boot/bzImage (depending on whether > you made a zImage or bzImage). Don't try to copy and use the 'vmlinux' > file that's in the main kernel source directory after the build - x86 > systems can't be booted with that image (some other systems, like > PowerPC, will use that uncompressed image file, but x86 is NOT one of > those).
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