Hi, I finally got over my signal 11 problems and can now recompile a kernel. The problems seem to have been due to bad RAM. I reinitialized my partitions because I was afraid I would run into filesystem problems due to the numerous times my computer froze when I was trying to recompile a kernel.
I tried the kernel package and compilation went fine except it didn't seem to compile any of the new modules even though I requested SCSI support, SCSI disk support, and the driver AHA152x. I say this because when I noticed it had not detected any scsi hosts, I searched for a file: aha152x.o and didn't see anything like it on the whole hard drive. Lines from my .config file: CONFIG_MODULES=Y #CONFIG_MOVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KERNELD=y ... #CONFIG_MAX_16M=Y ... CONFIG_SCSI=Y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=Y CONFIG_CHAR_DEV_ST=Y CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=Y The only thing I did different from below was that I used 'make config' Could this have anything to do w/answering NO to the question about modules version numbers? >I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running: > >'make xconfig', followed by >'make kpkg-clean', >'make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 kernel_image' >'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb Couple other "newbie" questions for you: - Since my kernel isn't working right yet, can I recompile a new kernel from the same directory I compiled the previous one? Do I need to change the numbering in custom.1.? - Since I didn't limit the kernel to 16 MB & kernel-kpkg defaults to bZimage, should my new kernel detect 24 MB? My boot messages say 16MB after recompiling. - If I add new RAM to my system, do I need to recompile the kernel for it to be able to use all of it? LThanks, Thalia -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
