Hi,
I just compiled my first custom kernel last night. Now, when I reboot,
my computer freezes after LILO (I assume) prints out "Loading Linux...." It
never gets to "Uncompressing kernel...."
Originally, I installed Debian 2.1-stable, kernel 2.0.36, from CD.
Then, in order to get my PCMCIA network card to work, I had to install the
pcmcia-cs package from unstable (because the version of pcmcia-cs in stable -
3.0.5 - does not support my particular card). At the time, the version of
pcmcia-cs in unstable was 3.0.9. That worked fine.
Next, I wanted APM and PPP support so I installed:
- kernel-source 2.0.36
- kernel-package 6.05
- fakeroot
- pcmcia-source 3.0.12
- pcmcia-cs 3.0.12
I soon discovered that the new version of pcmcia-cs, 3.0.12, had a dependency
on the latest version of libc - libc6 2.6.11 - which 3.0.9 did not. I installed
the new libc, which triggered a whole bunch of new dependencies. When the smoke
cleared, I had the latest versions of gcc, g++, libstdc++, amongst others.
Finally, I followed the installation instructions on the Debian site to
compile my new kernel. Interestingly, I can't use 'make menuconfig' because
lxdialog crashes with a seg fault. So I used 'make config' to configure my
kernel, built it with 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.2.0.36 kernel_image'. I also
built new modules with 'make-kpkg modules_image'. I installed the 2 .deb's that
were produced, as well as pcmcia-cs 3.0.12 itself. Now the system won't boot (I
can boot from floppy).
Is there any way to fix this? If you need more info to answer that
question, please let me know. I will be very grateful for any help.
Thanks,
Michael
