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Hi Randy,
Actually there's no such thing as telling the kernel to "ignore" hardware.
There aren't any system checks as to what hardware is on the system. you
must configure the kernel before compilation.
The problem I ran into was this kernel, 2.4.x was looking for a system
profile. I sort of remembered seeing something about that but couldn't
remember where exactly. Then, I started Drakconf for something and lo and
behold, there it was. I configured a profile and what-a-ya-know...the dern
fool thing booted just fine. Of course it through a few errors cause there
were things like iptables that it was looking for that aren't yet on the
system, but there weren't any serious errors happening. Now it's just a
matter of getting things together to get up and running with kernel 2.4.5
and iptable, NAT and a few other things.
- --
Mark
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> > > I don't know...maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but isn't the
> > > kernel supposed to boot after you've experienced a flawless compile?
>
> Just a newbie comment / question: I'm not so sure -- during compile does
> anything check whether the machine actually has the hardware to support
> what is compiled? Can't you compile a kernel on one machine for use on
> a different machine? Must you do something special when you do that,
> like tell the compiler to ignore missing hardware?
>
> Randy Kramer
>
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