Hello friends.. Glad to be aboard what seems to be a wealth of knowledge
here. Ok.. First, I'm running right now Redhat 6.1 with 2.2.12-20 stable
on an old Packard Bell p133 of mine. I am trying to get my hands as dirty
as possible to get quality experience with the system. I have to admit. I
fall in love more and more everyday. I've got books, papers and how to's
all over the room and my wife just kinda looks at me and smiles as she
realizes I am deep in my latest project. So.. intro's outta the way, lets
get down to it.
I've gotten 2.2.13 to compile easy enough - these are my steps
make oldconfig answering no to all of the questions that pop up for new
items.. since I am not upgrading kernel for usability, just experience?
Ok.. question here.. which old config does this use anyway?
After that not working. I've moved over to make menuconfig and have
hammered through my books for what everything means so I know what to pick.
from there, I " make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install " as
per the references and off it goes to compiling.
I am running a /boot partition as recommended by the Redhat folks, but this
always puts the new System.map and vmlinuz in the / directory.. should i be
concerned about this? When I finish I normally just cp those files over to
/boot after backing up the old ones. now off to lilo.conf adding a section
for the new kernel looking something like this
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13
root=/dev/hda6 <-- a copy from the original image setup
read-only
label=new /* also the old image setup has
a line initrd=/initrd-2.2.12-20.img that is never made by the
new
compile.. what's the deal here?
ok.. write and quit..
I've already moved everything to /boot at this stage.. and now.. type
"lilo" adds linx *, new, and dos.. as expected
and then a reboot
best case scenario so far? the kernel loads, but I'm missing a few
things. here's what i get from make oldconfig run through. These error
messages occur on the way through boot
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit : /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq No such file or directory
can't locate module sound
can't locate module midi
and delay load of eth0 and it fails the load of the card previously set up
using tulip.
Got a lot to learn, I know. trying to catch up and ya'll seem to be the
most friendly so far, so. Any help? and lastly, I bought the book
Unleashing Redhat Llinux 6 (course after I had already bought 6.1 :P) and
it's pretty thorough, but almost too much so. I'm looking for some
reasonably decent beginner books that aren't too kid like, but step through
things nicely. Any suggestions from folks out there that have had luck with
them? The how-tos are nice, and i have them referenced all the time. But
just basically getting to know the operating system would like some good
tutorial type information.
Thanks for your time and help
Tom Draffen
programmer, kinda, networker sorta, dad and husband all the time
