On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:59:23AM -0400, Hamid wrote: > Hi > > I installed debian woody but it had kenrel-2.2.20. Well, it includes 2.4.18, too. Reading the install guide is a very good idea :) > I downloaded the new kernel source tar ball and followed the > instructions from > http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Compiling_Kernels/20_Steps_to_a_New_Kernel_with_Grub.html > (I installed GRUB before doing this) > When I choose the new kernel at boot loader screen, it gives me "kernel > panic" and the last meaningful line to me is: > usb.c We'd need to know what the actual panic message was. > When I use "make dep | grep Error" it complains about some stuff such as: > au1000_gpio.c:41: asm/hardware.h: No such file or directory > and similar messages which almost all of them involve some header files. That's not good. Did the kernel at least build, though? > What should I do now ? Is it a bad kernel module selection Well, there ideally shouldn't be any such thing. > or I am > missing a step here ? You'd have to give us a list of the steps you went through before we could answer that. Also, are you aware of the prebuilt kernel images in Debian? 'apt-cache search kernel-image' will show them to you, and installation is as easy as 'apt-get install kernel-image-blah' and following the instructions CAREFULLY. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: national information infrastructure clandestine Janet Reno
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