Hi, * Dave Smith; on 19 Oct, 2001 wrote:

So, what have I forgotten? I have: o Copied bzImage from the kernel area to /boot, which is in a suitable place on the disk What about System.map have you copied that one also ?

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* Dave Smith [Oct 19. 2001 14:45]:

So, what have I forgotten? I have: o Copied bzImage from the kernel area to /boot, which is in a suitable place on the disk

What was the name you gave it in /boot?

o Run LILO (I'm not a total newbie, remember :-)

No errormsg whatsoever?

o Run mk_initrd - it says that an initrd is not required - true, since pretty much everything required to boot is compiled directly in.

Then remove the initrd line. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.

Hi Dave, I suggest you do a 'make cloneconfig' first to get the suse defaults, up ther version number in the top level makefile, make modules, make modules_install You will have a new set of modules in the directory of the new version under /lib/modules, all ready to copy across to the other PC. And don't forget to copy system.map for the new kernel. Rgds, Tony At 13:45 19/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:

Hi all. I'm having some problems installing a new kernel.

Let me start by saying that I'm not a newbie, but it's a long time since I compiled a custom kernel...

I'm trying to compile a kernel for a SuSE 7.2 pro machine. I want to compile a special kernel since the machine will eventually boot from network, so it's going to have to contain the NIC drivers. It's also intended to be a firewall, so I really don't want to have to install gcc and the kernel source on the machine. So, I'm compiling the kernel on another machine and copying it across.

However, when I try to boot the new custom kernel, I just get

Uncompressing Linux..........OK, booting the kernel.

And it hangs at that point. Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del will recover.

So, what have I forgotten? I have: o Copied bzImage from the kernel area to /boot, which is in a suitable place on the disk o Run LILO (I'm not a total newbie, remember :-) o Run mk_initrd - it says that an initrd is not required - true, since pretty much everything required to boot is compiled directly in.

I'm not trying to boot across the network yet, just check that the kernel boots at all...

ClueBats readily accepted...

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