Give this one a try if y wanna help!!
Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me to the right one?
This is a mailing list, not a newsgroup ... but other than that, it is a god place to pose beginner questions. Others have already given you some feedback specific to Red Hat. My comments will be a bit more general (since I'm not a Red Hat user).
I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any errors,
Does "it" here refer to the compilation, the install after compilation, or the boot/init process? On a guess that it means the first of these, please check (after a reboot with the working kernel) whether syslog has logged any helpful information in your logs (probably in /var/log)..
but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat.
Is this the same or a different "it"? Since eth0 is an interface and vfat is (probably) a kernel module, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "find/load". Could you describe the errors you see a bit more exactly? If you are a beginner at kernel compiles, there is any number of possible errors that might cause this, including:
1. Failing to add the required modules to your kernel .config file list
2. Failing to do both "make modules" -AND- "make modules_install" during the compilation process.
3. Failing to add the modules to the list that will be loaded during boot/init (I'm hazy on how RH does this; one way to do it is with the listing /etc/modules).
It won't go past starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements after the first fail which is eth0.
Do you mean by this that the kernel not only fails to "find/load" eth0 and vfat, but that it never completes the boot/init process (that is, you never get a login: prompt)? If so, I would wonder if it has the correct root (/) filesystem assigned ... check your /etc/lilo.conf (or equivalent, if you use a different bootloader) to make sure it has the right root= entry for the stanza associated with your custom kernel.
Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original kernel but not the new one.
The advice someone else provided here is (at least to a degree) Red Hat specific; not all kernel-source files include the ./configs directory that message suggested.
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