I thank everyone again for their patience with me. I have tried to methodically note everything I have done during the kernel compilation below. Everything seems fine until the make install step.
make distclean // no errors make clean // (probably redudant) no errors emacs Makefile & // changed 'EXTRAVERSION = -first-try' make mrproper // no errors make xconfig // didn't change anything make dep // no errors make bzImage // seems fine, see below Root device is (8, 7) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 2623 bytes. System is 1156 kB warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/i386/boot' make modules // no errors make modules_install // no errors make install // errors, see below warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.20-first-try bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/System.map "" + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.20-first-try bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/System.map '' No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.4.20-first-try mkinitrd failed make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [install] Error 2 Will these errors cause problems if I bypass the 'make install' and copy files to my /boot dir? Thanks again for the help. -- Travis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
