Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> --- Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>
> wrote:
>
> >  I'd suggest you to do the following:
> >
> > 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
> > 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the
> > top dir of kernel source
> > (kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed)
> > 3. enable highmem. make menuconfig
> > 4. build kernel with make-kpkg: "make-kpkg --initrd
> > --revision='revision01'
> > kernel_image"
> > 5. install new deb
> > 6. reboot
> > 7. tell us about your luck :)
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > --
> > Alexei Chetroi
>
>
> I did the same way as u told , my steps are as follows
>
> 1)apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
> 2)cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4   
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/.config
> 3)make menuconfig 
>     Select 'Load config from file' and choose .config
>     Enable 'smp', 'highmem4G' 
> 4)make dep
> 5)make-kpkg clean
> 6)make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-image
> 7)dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_debian.2.4_i386.deb
> 8) Reboot
>
> Got kernel panic. Any mistakes I did?
>
> Sarav

You forgot the "--initrd" option to make-kpkg, and you will also have to 
add the appropriate "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18_debian.2.4.img" line to 
/etc/lilo.conf (or however you do it in grub if you use it)

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