At least now I know it's not some silly mistake I made... :) Yeah, I just configured with abandon thinking everything would work fine. I tried the default config, and it worked, so I think I will slowly configure stuff in/out until it breaks again.
Thanks, Kathy Stew Benedict wrote: > Ahh the joys of PPC kernel building! It always seems to be a coin toss. > The 2.2 series seemed to have stabilized, but I even had to patch 2.2.20 > as it wouldn't build on PPC. The problem could be a number of things, > SMP, wrong processor type, video choices, etc. etc. What you might want > to do is take a look at the config file from any 2.4 series kernel I've > done for Mandrake PPC, and see what options are enabled vs. what you've > selected. Generally the default that appears whe you do make menuconfig > is fairly safe. On mine you'll find modules for a lot of stuff that many > PPC users wont ever use, but if it builds I include it. > > As an aside, I've setup a script on my build machine that rsync's BenH's > kernel and builds a new RPM. I just need to scp to my web space as part > of the script and then folks will have another option for pre-compiled > kernels. If you find anything blatantly missing in the config let me > know. I'll finish setting up the scp portion tonight. I won't be > spending a lot of time on this kernel as it's not the official Mandrake > one, but I can certainly tweak the config. > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
