On Saturday 29 July 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Currently studying LPI102 at grandville - unfortunately the teacher > > leans heavily towards Fedora and almost ignores debian systems which > > makes things a little difficult. > > > > This week we had to recompile an upgrade kernel, i used the below > > method and did a 'make oldconfig' but my xorg server fails to start - > > how can this be if i am using the old config file? and what can i do > > to resolve this issue? > > > > -- COMPILE METHOD--- > > 1. obtained kernel in bzip2 format, untar, unzip and verify signature > > > > 2. clean out old config files with > > # make mrproper > > > > 3.copy existing kernel config file to the new source directory: > > # cp /boot/config-$(uname -r).config > > > > 4. Configure the kernel > > # make oldconfig > > Do this step here, > 4.1 make menuconfig (This will start an interactive menuconfig > for you to check that your video driver module is enabled. Enable it > if it is not. If you are running on X then do make xconfig.) > > Kernel .config in your old kernel was not picked-up correctly > by your latest kernel that you are re-compiling. This is NOT unusual. > > > 5. compile kernel > > # make-kpkg clean > > > > #make-kpkg modules_clean > > > > # make-kpkg --append_to_version=<.value> --initrd kernel_image > > > > (go for a walk...make a coffee and so on!.....) > > > > 6. Install Kernel > > > > # cd .. (check for the kernel in .deb format) > > > > > > 7. Reboot - all appears fine and then X wont start and lo complains > > about radeon video controller. > > > > > > > > Thanks guys once again for taking the time to read my rantings!
My last post, yet again, had no valid title - sorry I don't know about debian, but for ubuntu make-kpkg is very tricky and DOES NOT easily give you the same kernel. For FEDORA make-kpkg is not relevant, my previous post does apply! James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
