[plug] RH7.1 kernel rebuild boot problem

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Paul Dean wrote:

> At 05:48 PM 30/05/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> >Sorry I forgot to add that to the initial email.
> >Yes I did the following order:
> >cd /usr/src/linux (using 2.4.2-2 kernel)
> >make mrproper
> >make menuconfig
> >make dep
> >make clean
> >make bzImage
> >make modules
> >make modules_install
> >cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/mykernel-2.4.2-2
> >vi /etc/lilo.conf (edited for new kernel)
> >ran lilo.conf (no problems)
> >
> >No errors anywhere, until I reboot and it says "uncompressing kernel" and
> >stays there.

Since you have scsi and ide, you must boot from the ide drive, or remove
the ide drives while running lilo, or it won't boot correctly under scsi

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
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> What Processor are you building this for?
> Did you set your Processor options in menuconfig?
> If so you will need to go to the right dir and copy that image, I find that
> running "make install" works pretty good for the last option.
>
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