In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I've installed Debian on my Laptop (Bellagio Gericom) some time ago with >2.4.18-bf2.4 and now tried to compile my own kernel. Easy thing to >compile, but not to boot.
If you are using the standard debian kernel-source package, it does not contain the .config file for your running kernel. That is in /boot, renamed to config-whatever. I recomend the following steps: Try a standard, non-bf, debian 2.4 kernel. Remember to add the initrd to your lilo.conf. (And make sure to have an alternate boot of your working kernel. I leave a bf entry in lilo for this.) When that works, copy the /boot/config file to your kernel source area and rename it to .config . Use make-kpkg with like this: fakeroot make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version test --initrd kernel-image Install the package, again making sure to have the initrd options on the appropriate lilo stanzas and rerun lilo. Once you have this working, you can start playing with make menuconfig and changeing kernel options. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden