[TriLUG] my latest kernel attempt

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

Whoa. I didn't see this one until I got back from turkey day.
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Greg Brown wrote:

<<SNIP>>

> make bzImage
> 
> make modules
> 
> make modules_install

Here, you install modules in /lib/modules/2.4.18-3custom-greg.

> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3custom-greg.img 2.4.18-3

At this point, you have /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3custom-greg.img, built with 
modules from the /lib/modules/2.4.18-3 tree, which might work, depending 
on the size of the diff between the two source trees, but is probably not 
what you wantrd to do. However, this shouldn't affect lilo, which doesn't 
do a whole lot of error checking beyond "is it there?".
 
> 	Added 2.4.18-3c
> 	Fatal: No images have been defined.

This generally means that the file /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3custom-greg 
doesn't exist. Double check that you haven't typo'd the file name in 
lilo.conf. Also, when you edit lilo.conf, unless you're 150% sure that you 
want to only boot your new kernel, you generally want to leave an old 
working entry intact. It also helps you make sure you have proper syntax.
 
> upon reboot of machine
> 
> uname -a
> Linux paloverde 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

Yup. Lilo changes don't take effect unless the lilo process runs without 
failures.

Hopefully the kernel class in December will help make this process fairly 
straightforward. :)

~spot
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