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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Braddock
>
>On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:47:59 -0400 (EDT)
>Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> I did:
>> make mrproper
>> make menuconfig  (seems to be needed for 3rd party modules)
>> make dep
>> make bzImage
>> make modules
>> make modules_install
>> installkernel 2.4.19-16mdkcustom arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map
>> lilo (just for good measure)
>I, too, just successfully compiled a kernel starting with the stock kernel
>for 9.0.  The only things I did different than you was I used "make
xconfig"
>instead of "make menuconfig" and instead of using installkernel, I manually
>copied the new kernel to /boot and manually edited lilo.conf to insert the
new kernel.

I ended up using the stock kernel from kernel.org, sinnce the win4lin
patches didn't like the kernel in 9 due to mandrakes changes.  I did..

rm -rf kerneltree
tar xvzf kernelname
run pathches for win4lin
Change Extraversion to something new in makefile
make xconfig
load the config file I was messing with, make changes
Save changes

make dep
make clean bzImage modules
make modules_install install

like shown here.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/compiling-module.html

I didn't do make mrproper.  It didn't seem to matter, and once I found
something that worked I stopped messing with it. (I'm guessing that was
because I reextracted the source each time.  It only takes about 5 seconds.)
I used the stock 2.4.19 kernel, not the one with mandrake.  Changeing the
Extraversion number each time seemed to get around some wierd problems.
Once or twice I ended up having to change lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo, but
all in all it basically worked.  One other problem I had was I had to
specify not to try to use a framebuffer like the lilo linux-nofb option in
the default kernel settings in lilo, otherwise the screen would go blank.
Perhaps its something to do with the dvi connection to my monitor.  The only
other thing that would be nice is a simple script to automatically deal with
nvidia's drivers.

I suspect I wouldn't have had nearly as much trouble except I haven't built
a linux kernel but once or twice before.

-Robert



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