Hi, I'm writing to you regarding some kernel installation problems and I would like to apologies if I'm sending it on wrong address :-(.
I have some problems installing new kernel 2.6.x on my laptop. I have Knoppix 3.4 installed on FujitsuSiemens Amilo pro V2000 laptop and it came with kernel 2.4.26 and 2.6.6 after the installation. These are the features of the system: Intel i855GM chipset with integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 with TV out, Celeron M 340 1,5 GHz processor, 256 MB Samsung DDR SDRAM, IrDA port, 3xUSB, 1xFireWire port, 1xPCMCIA slot, Wireless network card, ... A lot of things to make working!!! I have WindowsXP installed also and I have two NTFS partitions. I have also two linux partitions and one swap partition. My linux boot partition is reiserfs and i have ext3 on my second(home) partition. In order to have better driver support, I wanted to install 2.6.11 kernel (kernel 2.6.6 is without source code or kernel headers so I couldn't install some drivers that need this). After the installation of the 2.6.11 kernel, I configured and compiled it and than I installed the modules. I followed some procedures I found on internet about installing and compiling the kernel 2.6 but something went wrong. When rebooting with the new kernel I get blank screen!!(thanks god I have Knoppix so I can boot in some of the other kernels). I configured the kernel with xconfig from scratch (I mean I didn't load already existing kernel config file). During the configuration I included the support for both of the file systems I have directly in the kernel (I know this is the most common mistake when configuring kernel) and for others FS as modules. I also included the new kernel path (vmlinuz and initrd image) in the /etc/lilo.conf file. I'm not able to attach my 2.6.11-config and lilo.conf files at this moment but I can provide them if needed (or some other files as well). The only thing I could think of was the initrd.conf file. In this file there is a line where the initrd image is made with ext2 support and I have reiserfs on my boot partition. Maybe this is my problem but I'm not shure. I tried to do something with mkinitrd but without any success. I did a lot of internet searching in the past week or two and I read thousands of lines about this but I get more and more confused about all this thing. Could you help my please with some detailed instructions about kernel installation procedure on Knoppix(Debian) systems or give me some useful links? Or maybe some clue what was wrong with the whole install procedure? Thank you very much in advance for your time and effort. Igor __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
