> >My aim is to start all over again compiling my old kernel step by step -
> > the first time I changed a lot of things at a time and that's why I just
> > can't figure out what exactly the reason for it is. How can I go back to
> > that stage?
>
> Since u don't have the configuration saved in a file, u will have to go
> through each and every option after make menuconfig / xconfig and select
> those required by you. This time do save those options to a file. It really
> helps. Keep that file in /usr/src which I do. After compilation I just
> remove the kernel sources from /usr/src/linux, since I have a handy deb
> file :-)
>
> Now u will have to do the following :
>
> rm -rf /usr/src/linux ( or rpm -e lx_suse-src<whatever>.rpm )
> tar -zxvf <kernel2.4-src.tar.gz) /usr/src/linux
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig ( or make xconfig) [ save the config to a file ]
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make install
> make modules_install
> vi /etc/lilo.conf [ make the necessary changes ]
> lilo -v
> reboot
O.K. did that. But after just compiling the new installed sources as they are
I (only gave the kernel additional NTFS read support, once normally, once as
module, and the third time I put it out again) couldn't boot the fresh one.
The error message is: <<VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:0e>> just after the
<<NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0>>. I wonder if the
sources I got are different from the kernel I'm running at the moment. Is
there a way of taking my running kernel and configure it with the sources
I've got. I think they should be in general the same (same Version) - prehaps
SuSE patched it with their own stuff.
tnx
Tom
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