debs, successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel 2.2.16 for my potato deskbox; but trying to do the same thing (approximately 5 times) on my slink lapbox leads to the infamous "kernel panic." the first re-boot (via floppy) after the compile is fine. it's the next re-boot after that, that things get weird.
...the last line before hanging: kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount fs on 03:01 here's my partition scheme: / on hda1 (1.5gb) swap on hda5 (66mb) hda3 (500mb) (for storing large files (e.g. kernel sources, netscape, wordperfect...) that i don't want to re-download after i re-install slink). before the compile, slink was using kernel 2.0.36 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36). (after the compile, i moved the old kernel to /boot/oldvmlinuz-2.0.36, as i thought, perhaps needlessly, that the new kernel (/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16)) needed its own "vmlinuz" "identity." in case the compile is at issue, here's what i did from "bt:/usr/src/linux#": make menuconfig make dep make install make modules make modules_install there isn't, nor will there be, another os on the lapbox, just "dlinux." the rescue disk won't even let me "backdoor" the system: "mount failed: invalid argument" (when i tried to mount hda1). anyway, ...suggestions/options? ia, t. bentley taylor. //
