On 14 Jan 2001 20:06:51 +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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> For booting into runlevel 2, when selecting the boot options from LILO's menu
> just add 2 at the back so instead of '2.4.0' you type '2.4.0 2'. Or just add
> it to lilo.conf - the line 'append=2'
OK; I'll give that a try,thanks.
> Enjoy, and by the way 2.4.0-0.31 is not the real 2.4.0 version. Might want to
> try downloading the real package from Cooker.
Hmmm. OK; from where, exactly? What is the ftp addrees and directory? Or
can I do it via the Mandrake Update?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michel
> the twin nemesis :p
>
> On Sunday 14 January 2001 18:59, you wrote:
> > Running Mandrake 7.2 on a PII.
> >
> > OK, so I decided to try my luk with the 2.4 kernel. This is kernel
> > 2.4.0-0.31mdk (this is the code downloaded via Mandrake Update, I
> > believe).
> >
> > Anyway, this is what I did:
> >
> > cd /usr/src/kernel-hack
> > make menuconfig
> > <choose what I wanted>
> > make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
> > cd arch/i386/boot
> > cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0
> > cd /usr/src/kernel-hack
> > cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.0
> > cd /boot
> > mkinitrd initrd-2.4.0.img 2.4.0-0.31mdk
> >
> > Edited /etc/lilo.conf to include a new entry:
> >
> > image = vmlinuz-2.4.0
> > initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.0.img
> > label = 2.4.0
> >
> > Did "lilo -v"
> >
> > Rebooted; chose the new "2.4.0" option.
> >
> > It proceeds to start to boot into runlevel 5.
> >
> > Q1: how can I specify runlevel 2? I *don't* want to automatically boot
> > into a GUI; I want a console prompt for this kernel.
> >
> > It gets as far as "Building Window Manager Session" ... and dies. Just
> > sits there. No disk activity, no nothing.
> >
> > Any ideas on what I have done wrong? I don't even see anything in the
> > logs (syslog, messages) to even indicate a 2.4 boot.
> >
> > Has the procedure to compile changed from the 2.2 kernels?
>
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