On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, roadrun37 wrote: > I use a boot disk to get into Debian linux. > > I've looked at all the relevant kernel info and some give conflicting > instructions. My immediate concern is getting my Sound Blaster AWE64 > Value recognized my the system. Anyway, I looked at the > SoundBlaster-Awe mini howto and the Sound-Howto and the Kernel-Howto. > > 1) i used make menuconfig. > 2) i picked the relevant options. > 3) i saved the configuration. > > The SoundBlaster-Awe mini told me to do : make-pkg ... (something like > that) > i couldn't. > > 4) so instead i did make dep > 5) then make clean > 6) make zImage > 7) make zdisk > 8) make modules > 9) make modules_install > > 10) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0
'make zdisk' makes the zImage file and writes it to the floppy, so steps 6) and 10) aren't needed. > > that should be the end? did i forget something? > when i boot up, it sees the SoundBlaster, but it then gives me a slew > of messages about the modules, how it can't see the vfat or the gpm > mouse devices. > > Does anyone else have this problem? Can someone give me an answer? > (preferably someone with a Debian system?) Does 'uname -a' show the correct date and time you compiled your kernel? It looks like you possibly forgot to cp the zImage file to / or /boot (wherever your /etc/lilo.conf says it should be) and to run lilo. If you install the Debian kernel-package file, running make-kpkg will nicely handle things for you and create a kernel-source .deb, which you can then install. You will be asked during the installation if you want to make a floppy and if you want to update LILO. If you are actually running the new kernel, I would suspect an error was introduced during the menuconfig process. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
