Re: new kernel

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Thu 09 Apr 1998, Jesse Goldman wrote:

> I'd like to replace the 2.0.31 kernel that came on the boot disk I used to
> convert my Alpha PC164LX to Debian (it's constantly spitting out kernel
> "unaligned trap" messages to the console). I got the 2.0.32 kernel
> sources, applied the 2.0.32 alpha patch and, after configuring, typed
> "make boot". A few C warnings aside, things seemed to go fine and I ended
> up with a "vmlinux.gz" in the arch/alpha/boot subdirectory. When I moved
> this image to /boot and told MILO to boot it, however, I end up with
> endless screens full of "Can't handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address ----". Are there some special options I need to add to get it to
> recognize the new kernel or did I just compile it wrong? Thanks...

You did tell the configuration that you have a PC164LX, right?

Why use 2.0.32, BTW? 2.0.33 has been out a long time, and I gather the
2.0.32 alpha patches also work for that (I haven't tried those patches,
I'm now using the 2.1.x kernels).


Paul Slootman
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