On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:59:25PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote: | (snip) | > What kind of keyboard and mouse? | | I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard | can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn't working. | | (snip) | > kernel. Another thing to try is to install the pre-packaged 2.4 | > kernel and see if it works at all. If it does, then you know it is | > your config that is incorrect. Then you can compare and see where | > they differ (that is relevant). | | An interesting idea. How do I get the prepackaged 2.4 image onto a boot | disk? Thanks. (I want to keep the 2.2.18 kernel on the hard drive until | I get things working.)
Just install the kernel on the hard drive. You can have multiple kernels (with different versions) on the same system with no problems. Say, did you update your modutils and perhaps binutils packages? The old (potato) ones don't work with kernel 2.4 due to some directory struture changes. If you install the woody packages the Depends: will force you to update them. This may be your problem. If you do install the prepackaged kernel on your hard drive you will have another /boot/vmlinuz-<version>, /boot/config-<version> /boot/Sytem.map-<version>, /boot/initrd-<version> and a /lib/modules/<version> directory for modules. Since the version is part of the path, multiple versions can be installed simultaneously. The prepackaged kernels use an initrd so you will need to adjust your bootloader accordingly to boot it. I use grub so it was as easy as adding "initrd=/boot/initrd-<version>" to the kernel line and changed the last line from "boot" to "initrd /boot/initrd-<version>". HTH, -D
