You either did
make; make bzlilo
without doing
make modules ; make modules_install
OR
vice-versa.
OR
you failed to notice that (for some reason) the make bzlilo &c. put the
newly-built kernel in a different place from where the default
/etc/lilo.conf is looking for it.
I solve this problem my using vanilla "make bzlilo" and altering
/etc/lilo.conf to look for it where it gets put and the re-running lilo;
other folks mostly seem to put it where lilo expects instead. Either
way works, but in the end, lilo must be able to actually find it.
Brian Schroeder wrote:
>
> I probably qualify as a newbie here. I have installed Mandrake 7.02
> onto a dual pentium 166. To my surprise the install process chose to
> install the non-smp version of the kernel - without giving me an option
> either.
>
> I have tried installing the smp kernel rpm (I did an rpm -ivh, changed
> the file links in /boot and ran lilo), but when I try to boot, it
> complains that the modules were built for a different kernel (ie. the
> non-smp version).
>
> So I tried to build a custom kernel. This is my first time doing this,
> and I followed the instructions as closely as possible. Although I
> didn't notice any particular problems with the compile, when I eventually
> got to the reboot it failed to boot with complaints about problems with
> various modules (particularly the SCSI driver modules - since all disks
> are SCSI). I have since restored the original kernel and have it running
> again, but I think the errors were along the lines of unresolved symbols,
> or other linker/loader type errors.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions as to what I have done wrong, and what I
> should do?
>
> (As an interesting corollary: When I installed onto a single-CPU PIII,
> it was the smp kernel that was installed!)
>
> Brian.
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