On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:41 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > Huh? It is what kernel SRPM is for :-) > > > > Yick. Forgot about that... SRPMS for a source RPM? Who woulda thunk > > it... > > > Well, I need to check the .config file on this beast. > > I wonder should it not be in FAQ somewhere
The steps below are pretty much what I did before. I think I see what may have made the difference, but I can only be sure if I test it. > cd /usr/src/linux > make mrproper > edit Makefile - change EXTRAVERSION to something like 11mdk1alan > cp /boot/config .config I used the .config in the kernel-source rpm. The other had been overwritten. I will try it with the one left by /boot/config-2.4.18-6mdk and see if that is any better. > make oldconfig > make dep You forgot "make clean". > make > make modules > make modules_install > make install I did "make install" then "make modules_install". I wonder if that makes a difference for mkinitrd? > Leaves you with copy of currently booted kernel installed _and_ mkinitrd > created _and_ /etc/lilo.conf updated _and_ not interfering with other > kernels. Now you can hack it sround as much as you want. I already had a working kernel to boot from. (The original one was not "working" on this machine.) Well, lets see how this works out. It does not seem to like the ext3 boot partition.
