On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Yves Pelletier:
Hi,
I do It, but nothing happends.
Regards.
>
> Hey, I know the answer to that one... :-) Really fresh, spanking new
> knowledge, too.
>
> You need to make a boot-time ramdisk.
>
> # cd /boot
> # man mkinitrd
> # mkinitrd initrd-2.4.1.img 2.4.1
>
> If you use reiserfs it wouldn't hurt to add this switch: "--with reiserfs".
> Then finish this off by going into linuxconf -> boot mode -> LILO conf. (or
> edit lilo.conf) and specify the initial ramdisk you just created. Then it
> should boot...
>
> Yves
>
> Le 12 Février 2001 11:31, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the 2.4.1 linux kernel in Mandrake 7.2
> > distribution (not the mandrake's package, the one downloaded from
> > ftp.kernel.org). It's compiles ok, but when I boot the system the boot
> > process freezes on "Uncompressing Linux Kernel..." and nothing happen.s
> >
> > I compile the kernel with "make bzImage;make modules;make
> > install" and then I configure LILO.
> >
> > My system is a 450 MHz PII, QDI Brilliant I (440 BX) with 128MB
> > RAM and Leadtek Winfast 2300.
> >
> > I've probed with 2.4.0 and the same occurrs.
> >
> >
> > Any idea?
>
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