[plug] RH7.1 kernel rebuild boot problem

[psteege at tpg.com.au]

Beau

I do not have scsi drives, just ide drives.
I just have a Tekram scsi card connected to a scsi tape unit.
This whole kernel rebuild was being done so I could use the scsi tape 
for backups.

Phil Steege

> 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > /***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to 
recognize a
> > mistake when you make it again.
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