As long as you're booting from the Storm CD, you'll *ALWAYS* be using
the kernel on the CD. You'll NEVER be able to boot from a new kernel,
ever, until you install LILO or CHOS, or make a boot floppy.
The kernel you're booting from is on the CD. That's why you're still
booting from a 2.2.14 kernel.
What you should have done is, before you started partitioning your
hard drive, is made sure that your root Linux partition fell fully
below the 1024th cylinder (below the 8th GB on an LBA hard drive).
However, lack of foreknowledge or extenuating circumstances often
prevent people from doing this, and repartitioning is painful at
best.
There are two things you can do:
1. Since you're already booting from removeable boot media, you
probably wouldn't find booting from a floppy to be much of an
inconvenience. So do this as root, with a blank formatted floppy
in the drive:
dd if=/filename.of.your.kernel of=/dev/fd0
Be very careful with that command, as it does raw disk writes. If
you were to accidently type "hda1" instead of "fd1" you'd toast the
boot sector of your hard drive, so make sure you type the command
exactly (substituting the full path of your kernel, of course).
Anything on the floppy will be erased. Make sure the floppy isn't
mounted at the time, to simplify things.
This will turn the floppy into a very very makeshift base-level
boot disk. I haven't done this before, so I'm not sure what
opportunity you'll have to pass arguments to the kernel, but you
will need to pass the root= argument to it, just like booting
from the CD-ROM.
2. Install the new version of LILO that (assuming your BIOS has
certain extensions) allows you to forget about the 1024-cylinder
limit. I'm not sure if CHOS has incorporated this feature yet,
but I hope it has, because it's about a thousand times cooler than
LILO.
Hope that helps.
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:24:48PM -0700, Farshad Abasi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded the source for 2.2.16 and compiled it successfully.
> However, when I copy bzImage to /vmlinuz and I reboot, uname -a still
> reprts 2.2.14 as the version number.
>
> I boot using the Storm CD. Lilo does not seem to work for me. It keeps
> complaining about the 1024 cylinder issue... but this is NOT something I
> want to get into right now. This is how I boot:
>
> 1. insert the Storm Linux CD
> 2. reboot machine
> 3. at the boot prompt, I type "kernel root=/dev/hda3"
>
> WHere /dev/hda3 is the main linux partition (hda1 is my Win2k, hda2 is
> Swap and hda3 is linux)
>
> When the machine boots into Linux , "uname -a" reports 2.2.14 as the
> running version.
>
> I have deleted all possible kernels in /root directory... where is my
> machine getting the 2.2.14 kernel?
>
> Help!!
>
> Farshad Abasi
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>
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