[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Jordan Morren
There's a nice little kernel compilation mini-howto that might be of some help over at linuxquestions.org here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=91503 That one's more geared toward Red Hat, but there's also a good little guide in the Slackware forum:

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote: Now you need to make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install When that is done cp arch/i386/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22 mkinitrd initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22 Configure your bootloader. Actually, I think 'make

[tslug] help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Dana Schoonover
Hello All, I am upgrading my kernel for the first time.. and I'm kind of not sure what step comes next.. Any help would be greatly appreciated :-) What I've done so far: *backed up all my config files in /usr/src/kernelconfigs *got the 2.4.22 src files and unpacked them into

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Benjamin Story
True, I usually do make menuconfig so I forgot that step. On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:48:32PM -0600, Donald J Bindner wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote: Now you need to make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install When that is done cp

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Sean M. Foy
uname -a -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Schoonover Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel okay I think I've got it done :-) I rebooted and

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Benjamin Story
Now you need to make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install When that is done cp arch/i386/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22 mkinitrd initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22 Configure your bootloader. This is running from memory so I'd check www.ldp.org for the kernel howto. On Sun, Oct 26, 2003

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Ian Monroe
The problem lies somewhere with your boot loader not booting the kernel you want it to. Could you tell us something about it? Is it grub or lilo? The contents of your /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst)? On Sunday 26 October 2003 18:36, Dana Schoonover wrote:

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Caleb Jorden
I have worked on her system before, it is GRUB. RH has the sym links for both grub config files, so either one should work. Caleb. On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:05, Ian Monroe wrote: The problem lies somewhere with your boot loader not booting the kernel you want it to. Could you tell us

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Dana Schoonover
the contents of lilo.conf are: prompt timeout=100 default=linux lba32 boot=/dev/hda compact image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22 append = ro root=LABEL=/ initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.22.img label = 2.4.22 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 append = ro root=LABEL=/ initrd =

[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel

2003-10-26 Thread Caleb Jorden
Err, yeah, I guess we are running lilo now :) Anyway, you probably need to run lilo -v as root in order to re-write your boot record. Caleb On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 22:00, Dana Schoonover wrote: the contents of lilo.conf are: prompt timeout=100 default=linux lba32 boot=/dev/hda compact