Re: [TCLUG:7902] Compiling Kernel Help

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

I see that you're booting from /dev/hda7.  You might have problem with
that if part of your extended partition is past the 1024 cylinder limit. 

If that's not the case, then maybe depmod is not being run by your
rc.sysinit script.  You can try running 'depmod 2.2.5-15mine' and then do
another reboot.


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 cmoewes@pobox.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am at my wits end and hope that some can offer me a little guidance in compiling my
> kernel and getting it up and running. Here is what I have done.
> 
> 1. make mrproper
> 2. make xconfig. i choose the things I needed, scsi support for my zip drive, parallel
> support, ppp compiled into the kernel, removed everything not essential (BTW kernel
> version linux-2.2.5-15)
> 3. make bzImage (was too mig for zImage)
> 4. make modules
> 5. make modules_install
> 
> all of the compiling so far went with no errors
> 
> 6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15mine (this is the name of the
> kernelsfrom the original installation plau 'mine' to identify it)
> 7. added the following to lilo.conf
> 
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15mine
>   label = mylinux
>   root = /dev/hda7
> 8. lilo
> 9. shutdown now -r
> 
> now here is whee things go wrong (assuming I haven't made a horrid blunder above)
> 
> 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)
> 
> I just don't know what I might have done wrong. Now I looked in /lib/modules and saw
> that there were 3 directories in the , one for each of the kernels that was on my system
> when I started this whole thing
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         1024 Aug 25 22:55 2.2.5-15
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         1024 Aug 18 07:21 2.2.5-15BOOT
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root     root         1024 Aug 18 07:21 2.2.5-15smp
> 
> So I looked to see where make modules_install put the files and they went into
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15 which is where the kernel how to said they should go. So I thought
> maybe there needs to be one with the same name as the kernel I made so cp-r 2.2.5-15
> 2.2.5-15mine and reboot, same thing.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated. I know there are probably a lot f things that it
> could be but I just can't figure it out.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Chris
> cmoewes@pobox.com
> 
> 
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