RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-09 Thread Brian Sweeney
CTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julia Coolman > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile > > > Thanks a bundle, Brian, Telsa and everybody else. After a bit of > rearranging /boot, my belov

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Julia Coolman
Thanks a bundle, Brian, Telsa and everybody else. After a bit of rearranging /boot, my beloved suzuka boots happily from either kernel. I am still a bit confused about the modules. I'm not where to go from 'make modules; make modules_install' to get to 'insmod'. (Suzuka runs debian woody, for t

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Brian Sweeney
'Lo again all... > I leave in the "prompt" and "timeout" lines but include > > password= > > and "restricted" in the default image section > > This has the effect of booting to the default kernel after the timeout but > allowing other options if required but only if the password is supplied. > T

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Brian Sweeney thought: > Julia- > > Check out /etc/lilo.conf. Mine looks something like this: > > delay=1 > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > prompt # I comment these > timeout=50 # lines out for sec

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM -0700 or thereabouts, Brian Sweeney wrote: > Julia- > So, to sum it all up: ... > As a side note, did you want to run make modules and make modules_install? > Check out the modules.txt file in the Documentation directory of your linux > src dir for more info

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a > symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ > bzImage0 and ran lilo, then tried to reboot. Someone else said it, but it bears repeating. If you have a booting kernel, DO NOT TOU

RE: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Brian Sweeney
. Hope that wasn't TOO confusing! =) -Brian > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julia Coolman > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Daniel Manrique
> Rebooting using the 2.2.17 that I originally had, and again following the > HOWTO, I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a > symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage0 > and ran lilo, then tried to reboot. > Currently at boot, after the

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Walt
What distribution are you running? Walt -~ Given a thimbleful of facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. Gordon W. Allport ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailm

[techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Julia Coolman
Oh, what's a girl to do? After reading the kernel-HOWTO, I downloaded a 2.4.4 tarball, untarring it into /usr/src. Following the instructions in the HOWTO, I 'make xconfig'ed, 'make dep'ed, and 'make bzdisk'ed. At that point I booted succesfully from that floppy and unamed to verify I was running