On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:43 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my > vanilla kernel source (2.6.11.12 - the newest patch they have for SMP > kernels) into /usr/src and changed the symlink. I applied the Win4Lin > patches. I wanted the config of my currently running kernel, so I said > "make oldconfig" (make oldconfig does do that, right?) I didn't turn on > the Win4Lin support yet because I wanted to see if I could get the old > kernel to work without it first. I set up the kernel in > my /boot/grub/grub.conf file, just like my other kernels. Pretty > routine. When I tried to boot with 2.6.11.12, I got this: > <quote> > Booting 'Linux 2.6.11.12' > root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83 > kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda udev > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported execution format > </quote> > > Here's my grub.conf: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev > initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 > > title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r4 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev > initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4 > > title=Linux 2.6.11.12 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev > initrd /initrd-2.6.11.12.img > > title=Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > > I checked against /boot and all the file names are correct. I booted > with the top kernel, so I know those settings are correct, with the only > changes in the filenames. What am I missing here? > -Michael Sullivan- >
Nevermind. I rebuilt the kernel and tried to boot into it and it worked. I'm not sure why, though... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
