i downloaded linux-2.4.20.tar.gz from www.kernel.org...
then executed the following commands:
tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz
make menuconfig (picked QoS and fair queueing... which i need... didn't
really look at the rest)
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
the thing is i did everything up to make modules on a fast machine on the network...
and then went back to my laptop... mounted my home directory with the linux-2.4.20
directory on it... and proceeded with make modules_install and make install... could
that be a problem? my supervisors say it isnt possible though...
then i checked in /boot... the System map, vmlinuz and initrd.img for 2.4.20 were
there... lilo.conf also contained an entry... seems perfectly fine
when i try to boot the kernel... immediately after choosing it, it says
'loading 2420'... 'BIOS data check'... and reboots on its own again... same story with
2.4.18 which i tried earlier...
i tried modifying lilo.conf... so it loads the kernel without doing a bios check by
appending "nobd" to the entry... but it still stuffs up... which leads me to think
that its not the bios data check either...
i am baffled with this thing... its bizarre... what am i doing wrong?
could it be that i dont have the right options checked in make menuconfig?
i dont have another machine handy to view messages thru the serial console... am not
too sure abt the specs of the laptop because its owned by the university and i have
been given it to do my final year project... but it doesnt have as much memory as i
would like it to have though... runs pretty slow...
thanks
Asmeet.
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> > hi....
> >
> > i am currently using Mandrake 9 and kernel 2.4.19 which came with it... so
> > far my
> > experiences recompiling the kernel have only been limited to using the
> > kernel
> > source rpm for mandrake...
> >
> > now when i try to compile the kernel source (2.4.18 and 2.4.20) from
> > www.kernel.org, it compiles without errors... but when i try to boot the
> > image,
> > lilo flashes 'bios data check' and then it automatically reboots...
> >
> > what am i doing wrong? does it have to do with some options in 'make
> > menuconfig that i am not setting?'
> >
> > has anybody had this problem when using the kernel source from
> > www.kernel.org?
> >
> I run the stock kernels on a few machines without errors. The first things
> to check are that you specified the correct kernel and installed the image
> correctly. If you have another machine handy you can also try sending boot
> messages to a serial console in case there are other messages that you are
> missing.
>
> What kind of CPU/Motherboard are you using? How much memory? Is it an SMP
> board?
>
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