kernel compile issues

2003-09-16 Thread George Nicholls
I have a problem that is frustrating the dwang out of me and I think that I have narrowed it down a bit to a compile issue. I have two kernels running on my machine; the vanilla one 2.4.20-8 that came with the install of RH9 and a custom one that I added pcmcia/cardbus support for wifi. The vanil

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09 Jul 2003 21:17:46 +0200, George Nicholls wrote: > Many txs for the advice; I used mkinitrd to make a initial ramdisk. I > used the command; > > /sbin/mkinitrd --fstab /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 to create a file > initrd-2.4.21.img Read the

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-13 Thread George Nicholls
txs for the feeback:-) I got the kernel up and running in the end. I became confused after the "make modules_install" stage as the next stage, "make install", was not recommended in the how-to from kernel.org. It recommended using mkinitrd and copying the bzImage, config and other things to the /b

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-12 Thread Linux Tard
> default=0 > timeout=2 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Pasco Linux (2.4.21) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /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 >

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-09 Thread George Nicholls
Many txs for the advice; I used mkinitrd to make a initial ramdisk. I used the command; /sbin/mkinitrd --fstab /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 to create a file initrd-2.4.21.img When I rebooted to test the kernel, I got the following error; Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-09 Thread George Nicholls
Many txs for the advice; I used mkinitrd to make a initial ramdisk. I used the command; /sbin/mkinitrd --fstab /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 to create a file initrd-2.4.21.img When I rebooted to test the kernel, I got the following error; Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= optio

Re: Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:35:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you think that you could advise? Yes. > 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

Kernel Compile Issues for newbie

2003-07-08 Thread georgen
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 tha