-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 02:58, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Have a boot floppy before hand. It doesn't have to be specifically for you > machine, Knoppix ot Tom's Root Boot will be fine, but have a way to boot > before you run into problems, and you'll solve them MUCH easier.
more good advice =) to this i'd add: think about making a bootdisk from your new kernel (make bzdisk) before installing it to your HD and try booting off that floppy first. you won't be able to test the modules you build this way (unless you install just the modules, of course) but it's an easy way to test that your newly built kernel actually boots on your system. if you are using lilo this also prevents you from having to muck around too much with lilo.conf... of course, you may as well just get it right on your first try and not worry about it. ;-) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+SXT+1rcusafx20MRAliTAJ9dk1LegLoX1y7i0k+5/Kl66XX2zACfesxO aHeQNSme8a0T1Jn9EPVsu6w= =jaa7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
