Dear listies,
Do you think that you could advise?
I have bought some wlan cards and want to play with them. The kernel on RH
9.0 (2.4.20-8) has the loadable module support disabled.
Heroically, I downloaded the latest stable kernel (2.4.21) and had a go at
compiling it.
Here are the steps that I followed:
1. Unpack the sources
2. make clean; make mrproper cp .config.old(2.4.20-8) .config
3. make xconfig # enabled the loadable modules
4. make dep
5. make bzImage
6. 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'
7. cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.pasco (something
unique)
8. cp System.map file to /boot # cp System.map-2.4.21 /boot/
9. cp .config /boot/config.2.4.21
10. Configure GRUB
11. Reboot and check new kernel is booting
At this point the boot says booting Pasco Linux and stops with error 15:
cannot find file. I notice that there are a lot of differences in /boot
with vmlinuz/x files that I do not have. I feel that the process to make
bzImage went OK -so I am happy with the process upto point 7. I am not
confident that mkinitrd worked well (at least I do not understand it that
well).
I have attached my grub.conf and also the contents of by /boot directory.
Any suggestions to get me up and going?
Regards,
G
total 6662
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jul 8 16:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul 8 16:59 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jan 25 07:05 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 945262 Jul 8 15:58 bzImage.pasco
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jan 25 07:05 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44309 Mar 14 01:01 config-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37706 Jul 8 15:59 config-2.4.21
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 8 16:39 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150760 Jun 25 15:48 initrd-2.4.20-8.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149601 Jul 8 16:35 initrd-2.4.21.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Jun 25 15:48 kernel.h
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jun 25 15:44 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Feb 25 02:51 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Feb 25 02:51 message.ja
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 25 15:48 module-info ->
module-info-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Mar 14 01:01 module-info-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jan 25 07:05 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 25 15:48 System.map ->
System.map-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 520129 Mar 14 01:01 System.map-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526087 Jul 8 16:56 System.map-2.4.21
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3193503 Mar 14 01:01 vmlinux-2.4.20-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 25 15:48 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1122186 Mar 14 01:01 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=2
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Pasco Linux (2.4.21)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage.pasco ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
