On Thursday, 28.04.2005 at 15:11 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > How is your kernel different to a stock kernel? In particular, what > > have you *removed*? Post the config, perhaps ... > > I have lost my notes as to how to attach a complete file to this > message. vi has no entry for :help attach. You use: :r filename.txt to include the contents of filename.txt at the current position in the file. > > Can you not simply use a stock Debian kernel? > > Possibly. I never have. I tried to just now, Installed > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 and tried to follow the initrd-img > instructions. Lilo gave a fatal warning about overflow to the boot > sector. I'll have to read more to see what I have done wrong. Don't see why you need to "follow the initrd-img instructions": if your basic booting-up hardware is supported by that stock kernel, it should configure LILO appropriately if you install it as a Debian package. Are you using Woody or Sarge, or something else? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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