I should add that I tried to run mkinitrd manually (after power-cycling from the
system freeze) on the new kernel to get an initrd image. Needless to say, my
system froze hard again. I then tried replacing some packages (like mkinitrd,
initscripts and setup) from Cooker, but the problem persists.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:19:06 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have been having problems recently with kernel compilations and
> installations. Here are the steps I take:
>
> 1. Download the vanilla kernel source from a kernel.org mirror.
> 2. Extract it and patch it.
> 3. Run through the configuration process and edit the Makefile.
> 4. Run 'make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules'.
> 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'.
>
> This process used to work perfectly, but now the process freezes my whole
> computer whenever I get to the /sbin/installkernel phase (part of 'make
> install'), and specifically when it gets to running mkinitrd. On a quick
> glance of the 'make install' process, I noticed a reference to zImage. This is
> strange because I used 'make bzImage', not 'make zImage'. After a hard reboot,
> the kernel looked as if it was mostly installed: there were modules in
> /lib/modules/ and various files in /boot. The only file missing in /boot was
> an initrd image. As an experiment, I configured the new kernel in
> /etc/lilo.conf, but I got a"Kernel [name] is too big!" error whenever I tried
> to run LILO (as if I had used'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage').
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows.
You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of BeOS
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