Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!
Thalia L. Hooker wrote:
> Hi,
>
...
> I tried the kernel package and compilation went fine except it didn't seem
> to compile any of the new modules even though I requested SCSI support,
> SCSI disk support, and the driver AHA152x. I say this because when I
> noticed it had not detected any scsi hosts, I searched for a file:
> aha152x.o and didn't see anything like it on the whole hard drive.
...
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=Y
Looks like you've compiled it in, shouldn't it be "M" for module?
It still doesn't explain why SCSI is not being detected, perhaps
you need to add some command-line options?
...
> - If I add new RAM to my system, do I need to recompile the kernel for it
> to be able to use all of it?
You may need to tell kernel mem=24M (see LILO docs) if your bios doesn't
report > 16 Mb.
HTH
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Dimitri
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