Thanks for all the feedback. I tried installing a new kernel the 'debian way':
% make menuconfig % make-kpkg followed by: % dpkg -i kernel_name.deb which did everything automatically. Then I restarted ... to find I had no GUI and no internet. I realized that the automatic install had renamed my old kernel by appending .old to the name. I was able to add THAT to lilo.conf by hand and successfully reboot. I am sure most of you will disagree with me but this is one area where I do NOT like doing things the debian way. Compiling and installing a kernel isn't something I do everyday but it is something that can mess up a system. I don't know what is automagically being done behind the scenes and I am very uncomfortable with that. I would much rather follow a manual compile-installation instruction so that I can add the new kernel to lilo by hand to try it out, knowing the working kernel is still safe. Having said that ... I now think that I was doing things wrong before. After running make bzImage I saw there was a new file in the /usr/src/linux directory called "vmlinux". I thought THAT was the kernel and tried to copy it to /boot. After some research on the net I now think that the image is actually at /arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage. IS this what was meant by: On 12/27/05, Ernest jw ter Kuile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're copying the uncompressed kernel. Doesn't work. > Which IS the kernel I am supposed to copy? After I copied that bzImage I find that I have no GUI again. For some reason the nvidia modules is not getting loaded (or found). I have no idea why. Do I have to do something special with the nvidia module to get it to work with a newly compiled kernel? I still can't get internet working (either ethernet or wireless). When I tried to modprobe the relevant modules I got an error saying 'module not found'. But it IS there in the /lib/modules/2.6.14/.... directory. What is up with this? Do I have to update the System.map or something else? (I HATE compiling and installing kernels since I don't understand what is going on.) Thanks, Craig
