Re: [TCLUG:7902] Compiling Kernel Help

[Tony Beltran <beltran@skypoint.com>]

Hi:

There are two you didn't mention in your process that
I finally had to do in the face of the same symptoms:

1. add the keyword "linear" to your lilo.conf file

2. make the ram disk for booting (see the docs for 
   mkinitrd)

That should do it.  The "linear" was added because
I upgraded my alptop to a 6.4 GB HD and noticed that
fdisk did not translate my cyl/hd/sec properly.  I tried
an append statement in my lilo.conf file, but that didn't
do the trick, which the "linear" keyword did.

The ram disk solves the problem of not having modules for
certain resources the boot process needs before having the
modules loaded (a cart before the horse situation).

I did not have these issues with Red Hat 5.2, but my HD
was smaller and so was the kernel.

Tony


cmoewes@pobox.com wrote:
[informational comments deleted]
> After the reboot, i select mylinux from the lilo menu and the kernel uncompresses and
> starts loading. It sees the harddrive, and low and behold the zip drive spins up , sees
> the eternet card mounts the filesystem in readonly and then "find module dependencies"
> and nothing. It hangs. Just sits there. I even let it sit all night (wishing. hoping)
> 

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