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Hi
I tried compiling kernel 2.4.0 on my RedHat 6.2
system
yesterday, and ran into these problems.
1. I compiled the kernel with all the default
options,
didn't change any of them.
when I tried to boot this new kernel, this is what
i
got
Loading new...... (thats the label I gave to this
kernel)
Uncompressing Linux. Ok, booting the kernel.
And thats it, the machine freezes after that.
2. I made a couple changes. I removed SMP support
which was there by default, and added vfat
filesystem
support . Now when I compiled the kernel, there
were
still some files which were referencing smp
related
symbols, so the compile failed. Specifically, the
file
ksyms.c wouldn't compile, because it couldn't find
a
definition for smp_num_cpus.
Before changing the kernel config through xconfig,
I had done make clean, and after changing the
config, I
had done a make dep, and then the make bzImage.
What could be the problem?
I don't know if this will help, but my linux runs
on
the second of 2 hard disks, and lilo is installed
on
the primary's MBR.
TIA,
Akshay
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