> Hi there again, > I compiled a kernel and it sort of boots. Well I can login, but that's > about it. No X, no mounted ext3 filesystems! I was sure that I had it > selected for compiling into the kernel... Anyway, I am wondering whether > this may have something to do with the fact that I compiled with > gcc3.3.1 (not 3.2.stg...). I am going to try and install from source > 2.95.3 (the recommended) and then recompile the kernel. Unless, of > course, someone has a nice mdk 9.2 rpm lying around? I have seen stuff > around that suggests that more than one version can be installed at once > so will just try and compile and install it. > The lack of success might also have something to do with the fact that I > do not have all of the "required" apps installed. Well, you say, this > guy... I was thinking that unless I was going to compile (either in > kernel or as modules) support for things like jfs, xfs, isdn... then > there was little point in having it. Am I wrong? I certainly have > up-to-date versions of what I assume to be the essential ones. > I think that the problem is in fact that I wasn't careful enough when > configuring, I am going to try and follow a bit more closely the > instructions :-8. > > I hope I can just remove the various files and directories and start > again, extracting from source again. If this is suicide then farewell... > ;--9 > > Cheers for all your help > Anton > ps anyone know where can I get mdk rpms of oprofile, e2fsprogs, jfsutils > and reiserfsprogs? and gcc2.95.3?
Your likely problem with the unmounted drives is that Linux by default doesn't have supermount as part of the kernel you have to patch it to get supermount working as it does in the normal Mandrake kernels. As for X if you using a Nvidia card with nvidias drivers you'll need to patch the nivida kernel driver and recompile it. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ For the supermount patch though it appears to be out of date it may still work though it'll add another option to the filesystem config tab. http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html for nvidia + 2.6 works well. Chad
