Hi there, I have build LFS several times now, and I wanted to upgrade to the new kernel 3.8.3.
I started out from scratch, the only change I made from the book was the new kernel. Since I have a quad-core processor in my laptop, I made all the builds whith the make flag '-j 4'. And because I had made the build several times on the same hardware, I skipped most of the tests. It didn't work :-( Then I repeated the whole thing, this time without the make flag. It still didn't work. Now I did the whole thing again, this time including all the tests (which completed without problems). It STILL did not work. The problem was (and still is) that the machine could not boot, it stopped (and I could not see what happened, it went too fast) with kernel panic, and the LED in the caps-lock key on my keyboard flashing. As an experiment I restored a previous backup and recompiled the new kernel on it, and copying the boot files to /boot. I'm using my hosts GRUB, so the partition was not made bootable it self. This setup has worked fine before. Is there anything special I should do, to use the 3.8.3 kernel ? And now 3.8.4 is out, what about that one ? And by the way, what is the correct procedure if I want to upgrade the kernel after an installation is finished ? I guess I would have to extract the headers, and rebuild GCC and GLIBC ? What about the other programs, is any of them using the kernel headers ? Thanks in advance ! Niels -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
