Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-31 Thread Ray
On Saturday 29 March 2003 18:06, Petr Simon wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot > my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I > wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What I did is: > untar it > l

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:06, Petr Simon wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot > my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I > wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What I did is: > untar it > ln

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:46:34 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and yes ... 1024 doesn't mean anything anymore ...but people still > create a partition for /boot... whats the point ?? > /boot partition was to make sure the kernel resided below > the silly 1024 cylinde

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't believe 1024 cylinders means anything. That was a limitations of > older BIOSes and older versions of lilo. if i remember correctly.. his / is on /dev/hda6 ... which could be over the 1024 boundry... we donno what hw (mb/bios) he has ... an

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - if you build all the drivers into 2.4.20.. > - you do NOT need initrd > - unless you have / and/or /boot spans more than 1024 cylinders I don't believe 1024 cylinders means anything. That was a limitatio

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Petr Simon wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot > my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I > wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What I did is: what is the symptho

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:06:28 +0800 Petr Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot > my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I > wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:06:28 +0800 Petr Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't > boot my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, > but I I'm guessing (since you didn't say what the boot error mess

Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

2003-03-29 Thread Petr Simon
Please help! I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What I did is: untar it ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux cd linux make mrproper make menuconfi