No I didn't. Since it wasn't mentioned in the previous email, I thought
the rpm's took care of it. Or am I wrong here?
-JR
----- Original Message -----
From: James J. Capone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Kernel installation(Long message)
> After you did the Make Dep and Make zImage or bzImage (which ever the case
may be) di you run
>
> # make modules
> #make modules_install
>
> in that order??
>
> then after it is done also do a
> #make clean
>
> Let me know
>
> James J. Capone
>
> On Saturday, May 22, 1999 11:45 PM, John Richards
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Hi Cindy, gave this a try with my new 5.3 install. Everything seemed
to
> > go smoothly except it created a slightly different filename,
> > 'vmlinuz-2.2.5-ac3-5mdk'. I'm not sure what the significance of 'ac3'
is.
> >
> > When I boot the new kernel it gets down to the point of 'finding module
> > dependicies' and just stops. Fortunately I can reboot and choose my
old
> > kernel, but I'd like to know what went wrong and how to fix. Anyone
have an
> > idea?
> >
> > Here is my system config:
> >
> > AMD K6-233
> > 64mb
> > IDE hd and IDE cd-rom
> > TX clone m/b with Award bios
> > awe64 gold
> > ne2000 isa clone
> > ati xpert xl (mach64 xserver)
> >
> > -JR
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Cindy Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 6:11 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Kernel installation(Long message)
> >
> >
> > > I have seen various messages on this list about updating the kernel so
I
> > > thought I would share my experiences. IMHO, the easiest way is to use
the
> > > RPMs built by Mandrake from
> > >
> >
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
> > > S/kernel/
> > >
> > > I downloaded kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386 and kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
> > into
> > > a directory I created on my hard drive. I checked both by changing to
the
> > > directory I downloaded them to and using the command:
> > >
> > > rpm -K --nopgp *rpm
> > >
> > > Both should return a "size md5 ok" . I then installed both of them
using
> > the
> > > commands:
> > >
> > > rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
> > > rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
> > >
> > > This automatically installed a directory in /usr/src called
> > > 2.2.5-mdk and a file in /boot called vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk.
> > >
> > > I then downloaded all the file updates from:
> > >
> >
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
> > > S/updates/
> > >
> > > and checked them using the same command as before then installed them
> > using:
> > >
> > > rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> > >
> > > I then edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to add the following lines right
> > after
> > > the "timeout=50" line:
> > >
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk
> > > label=new
> > > root=/dev/hda(whatever your boot partition is)
> > > read-only
> > >
> > > I then issued the command /sbin/lilo and received confirmation that
"new"
> > > had been added. It should be noted that I do not boot from a SCSI disk
so
> > I
> > > do not need a "initrd=...." line in my lilo.conf file. I then rebooted
and
> > > selected "new" at the LILO boot prompt and booted a preconfigured
kernel.
> > >
> > > If you want to recompile the preconfigured kernel, you must also
download
> > > and install
> > > kernel-source-2.2.5-5mdk.i386.rpm. If you do not have pgcc installed
as
> > your
> > > compiler, you need to make the changes listed at:
> > >
> > > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
> > >
> > > There are also various fixes for post kernel installation problems
found
> > > there.
> > >
> > > YMMV and corrections to my method encouraged,
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
