Dear all,
I have an Athlon 550 MHz system in which I installed Potato.
It's all good with the installation boot disks and all that. The only
problem comes when trying to compile a new kernel other than the one
that came with the distro. So I downloaded the sources for 2.2.14 and
configured it (I can provide you with the Makefile, I won't send it to
the list so as not to clutter it). It's a pretty easy system: normal
EIDE hard drive, CD-ROM, serial mouse, keyboard and an ESS Solo1
soundcard. I don't even need networked filesystems (at least not for the
time being), so all there is is some network support (I use this as a
workstatio from which I read mail and news, and browse the web). Most of
the stuff is located as modules, with kmod support and all that. Oh, and
there's also a RealTek 8139 PCI network card.
After compiling a number of kernels (both using and not using
kernel-package), I always have to restore to a bootdisk I created with
the installation's default kernel. Basically, I get loads of different
errors: from CRC errors when decompressing the kernel (!) to dodgy
pointr assignments and stuff that outputs tons of debugging information.
I get kernel panics and stuff like that.
Obviously, I am missing some kernel option here which is causing
all these problems. I don't really know where the problem lies, and I
don't know where to look in order to sort it out. Does anyone have any
suggestions? I suppose I could go on using the default kernel, but I
find it annoying not knowing what's going on here!
Thanks,
José
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José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK
