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Ural Altay wrote:
I didn't mean it to be compiled under X. What I was trying to figure out is why the display could not be opened. So I thought that maybe after the compilation and installing of the new kernel, the system was about to run in X and since the memory is not enough it may had hard time initializing and that's why it could have produced the `unable to open display` :). But of course I do not insist it is the case :)
Ural
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mike Hostetler wrote:
I actually have a 486/sx and the advice below is good . . . but never, ever try to compile the kernel in X. It will take *forever*. I always go to single user mode (runlevel s, in SuSE) but if that isn't desirable, use runlevel 2.
- mikeh
If your 486 is an SX then make sure you enable teh Math emulation. Also make sure the configuration matches your 486 hardware than the pentium. The PCI bus etc. I am not quite an expert but "could not open Display" may be caused because of no memory while loading the X since you mentioned the 486 is minimum RAM. Try to boot in another run level. Like for example run level 2. The guru's may correct me if I am wrong :)
Well there seems to be some confusion here. I would compile the kernel on a pentium, then transfer it to the 486. Upon booting it on the 486, I get either an "automatic reboot"; which indicates a complete boot failure. Or, I get it to uncompress and start, then say "unable to open display". This isn't an X display. It can't open the vga, and just halts. It is an old dell motherboard with onboard vga. I could install Suse with it's standard EIDE kernel, but when I try to replace the standard one with my own, compiled on a pentium, I get the error. In the manual it mentions the importance of the /system.map to the /vmlinuz kernel. I havn't seen the system.map file before, and I'm wondering if there is a mismatch. On page 203 of the manual, it describes the importance of matching the system.map to the kernel. If I compile on a pentium, won't it generate a system map which is incompatible with an old isa motherboard? It is only an intellectual exercise for me, but those are the most fun problems to solve. :-) zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e