> So knowing that 2.4 kernels are definitely experimental, I grabbed
> George Metz' 2.4.3 distribution of his site and booted it up. It booted
> up fine (though I had issues with the newest syslinux, had to use 1.54
> instead of 1.62), but it doesn't include IDE support (unless I totally
> missed something), so I can't mount and configure my HDD to boot off
> of... I didn't see any modules that looked like they provided IDE
> support and I thought that IDE was not a modularizable feature to begin
> with. Do I have this wrong?
I don't know how George compiled the 2.4.x kernels. If there are ide-*.o
modules available, you can probably get IDE support running...if not (and if
it's not already compiled in), it's time to compile your own kernel.
> In hopes that I could do better myself, I compiled a 2.4.5 kernel off
> my Redhat 7.1 box and made it as a bzipped image... I replaced the 2.4.3
> kernel with the new one and I get as far as "Uncompressing Linux... Ok,
> booting the kernel" when it stalls. The kernel I built with initrd
> support and ramdisk support in hopes of using it with LEAF... What I
> don't know is if I compressed right (should I have included UPX
> support?).
> I read through the LEAF-devel guide, but this 2.4.3 distro looked to be
> using gcc 2.95? So I figured that I should be able to kernel compile on
> my RH7.1 box. Somebody please straighten me out!
UPX doesn't do anything but make the kernel a bit smaller...the uncompressed
kernel is the same once it's running. The key piece you missed is the LRP
patches to allow the kernel to read a tar.gz file as it's initial ramdisk.
Without this, you need to provide a raw filesystem image (optionally
gzipped) for the kernel to boot. You can grab the patches I ported to the
2.4 kernel here:
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/kernels/2.4.0-test11/initrd-archive-2.4.0-
test11.diff.gz
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/kernels/2.4.0-test11/linuxrc-always-2.4.0-
test11.diff.gz
George may also have the patches available on his site somewhere...
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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