Thanks for reply! On Tuesday 24 September 2002 02:58, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible for you to recompile the 2.4.19 kernel from source again? > If so, recompile and make sure that you have the IDE support compiled in > and not specified as a module. This is probably the reason why it cannot > find root, but it can be lilo too... I installed by apt-get. Now I can load by it but while booting it says that the root file system is readonly, and it boots without any module. It is using initrd.img and I think something is wrong with that? > > Also compile it by doing: > make-kpkg --revision=mykernel.1 kernel_image > The mykernel.1 can be anything and you'll need kernel-package package to > use make-kpkg. > Now you should have something like > kernel-image_2.4.19-mykernel.1_i386.deb. > Do a dpkg -i kernel-image-blah blah.deb to install. > It will install a new lilo boot image for you. DO NOT REBOOT! First > check /etc/lilo.conf to make sure it is correct and do /sbin/lilo -v > just to make sure all the links are like you want it. > > If you put in IDE support and lilo is correct then you should be able to > boot into linux with kernel 2.4.19. > > NB. What I usually do is copy the /boot/config-2.4.18??? file that the > installation created into my /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19 file as > .config. > E.g. cp /boot/config-2.4.18??? /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/.config > Then I change into /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19. > Do a make oldconfig of is it make old-config and answer questions about > new drivers. > Then do make menuconfig or make xconfig to customize. > Then do the above below "Also compile it by doing:" > > We'll look at the i830 problem when you have 2.4.19 ready, but you do > not need that for i830 support, 2.4.18 should do? What you really need > is XFree86 4.2..... What I really need is X . Now I am using a 2.2.20 kernel if there is anyway to run X on top of it with i830 let me know it please?
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