On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:34:24AM -0700, Serge Pluess wrote: > 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
a) This is 9.0 not cooker. b) You're asking for support for your own compiled kernel. Not Mandrake's kernel. Please take this to a regular support location. Not a development list. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
