Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Ignus Fast wrote:
> I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running:
>
> 'make xconfig', followed by
> 'make kpkg-clean',
> 'make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 kernel_image'
> 'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb'
Ready?!?
> 'make modules'
> 'make modules_install'
AFAIK, this is already done by the first 4 commands
Just run
'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb'
again to fix the modules.
> to create a custom kernel boot disk. But I tried specifying
> mouse/serial/parallel support as modules, and during boot the system
> bitches that there are no modules/drivers available. Then the systems
> init xdm and the screen goes black (though the computer still responds
> to keyboard input.)
Do you mean that X doesn't start properly anymore since you built this new
kernel?
You can read back the startup messages with the `dmesg` command.
Cheers,
Joost
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