Hi there today I thought I would look into recompiling the kernel. First thing I wanted to try is to just change the processor type to Athlon (Got a 1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird).
Did the make dep then make bzImage then make modules then make modules_install then make install Now I rebooted and bang. Big kernel panic's. I have a / partition with ReiserFS and a swap partition. the error message was on the reiserfs module not finding something with mmx. Even the old kernel wouldn't boot anymore. Was able to boot from the floppy though. Compiled ReiserFS into the kernel, not as module. This time it booted further but lot's of modules failed with messages about various things mmx not found. Like the following one: modprobe: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy So right now I am recompiling the kernel and setting the cpu type to i586 Serge
