I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated
packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few
kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says:
uncompressing the image. Ok...booting the kernel - and nothing. It just hangs
there. Prior to this, I had a newly installed woody system, thinking I would
not need the
"Bunk" files. I used the kernel-package steps with the above results. Then I
wiped out the linux directory and started new without using the kernel-package
steps. I can't think of why this is, when I compiled with no errors. I'll list
what steps I have taken thus far with the present setup.
Installed Debian 2.2 r3 from CDs and pointed sources.list to the "Bunk" files
at people.debian.org.
Did an apt-get update and apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Installed libncurses5-dev, got the 2.4.6.tar.gz and untarred it in /usr/src/
cd into usr/src/linux and issued: make mrproper, make menuconfig.
For my p166, I chose pentium pro / Pentium II. For my hard drive I chose
enhanced IDE/ATA/MFM?/RLL (not sure about this). For filesystems, I used
defaultsfor cdrom, ext2. I chose all netfiltering/iptables options, and chose
my nic to
be loaded as a module. PPP, floppy support etc. I'm really not sure what's
amiss in here.
I saved the config, Issued make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules,
make modules_install.
I copied the System.map into /boot/ along with the bzImage from /usr/src/linux
/arch/i386/boot/. I also copied vmlinux into /boot/ (not sure about that)
I updated lilo.conf:
Image=/boot/bzImage
root=/dev/hda2
label=Linux
read-only
# restricted
alias=1
Image=/vmlinuz
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
# restricted
alias=2
Everything else in lilo.conf was left as it was (except for the boot message)
I can still boot the old kernel, the new one will always stop at ....ok booting
kernel - with no error messages.
Maybe someone can help? My only other thought is to try this on a newer machine.
Thanks,
Wayne
