On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Simon Taplin wrote:
> I'm using Rh6.0 and kernel 2.2.5-15
>
> I've just tried to re-compile the kernel. My steps were
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
>
Maybe you should have tried make bzImage???
>
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> Then because I boot linux off a floppy disk, I made a new boot disk
> using the command
> mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd- 2.2.5-15
>
Hmm...typically you don't have to specify the device, just
the kernel rev.
>
> The problem is now when I try to boot up, it
> gets to - finding module dependencies and then stops
> dead. Nothing happens. Anyboody know what I've done
> wrong. I don't have a rescue disk (oops) so I'm
> probebly going to have to re-install, so how do I make a
> rescue disk?
>
Go download rescue.img and boot.img and use dd with your
Linux box or rawrite with your Windows box to write
"boot.img" to one floppy and "rescue.img" to another floppy.
You can try booting from your existing floppy by specifying
root=/dev/hdax where x=your boot partition. On my system
here at work and at home it's /dev/hda5. Hopefully that'll
take care of it long enough for you to repair whatever went
wrong.
John
