Re: 2.6.x-amiga kernel + misc.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Haakon Innerdal wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:32:32PM +0200, Haakon Innerdal wrote:
> > > Is there any special magic to apply if I want to run a 2.6.x-amiga kernel?
> > > (2.6.8-4 was the latest I tried)
> > >
> > > First of all, the default built kernel 2.6.8-amiga, is to big for
> > > amiboot-5.6.
> > > Any custom built kernel that is accepted in terms of size, only results in
> > > a grey screen, not booting.
> >
> > Try booting with an uncompressed kernel. This might actually explain why I
> > had problems with the latest kernels, I forgot to replace the uncompressed
> > one with the newly installed kernel...
> >
> Ah, thanks for the tip, I decompressed the debian -built kernel, and I
> came past the error of kernel to big, but still, it hangs in a grey
> screen, just like any custom 2.6.8 I try.
Could you try a 2.6.8 kernel without module support? Last time I tried, there
still seemed to be something fishy happening if you enable module support.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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