Hi,
I have compiled the new 2.4 kernel and everything seems to have gone OK, but
I can't boot into it. All of the on-line "how to compile and install a new
kernel" web pages end up talking about configuring lilo but I am using grub
(+ Mandrake 7.1 with upgraded KDE, developer tools etc.)
I think that my problem is just that I have not configured things correctly
for grub. Can anyone give me advice on this procedure. (I have found grub
documentation (in the doc/ directory, info doc and the on-line page) less
than helpful in this regard.)
Here is what I have done:
Downloaded the source for kernel 2.4.1 to my /root directory
extracted the tarball with
% tar -zxvf linux-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd to the resultant linux/ directory and configured the kernel with the
graphical tool:
% make xconfig
and then:
% make dep
% make clean
% make bzImage
% make modules
% make modules_install
then I moved and renamed both bzImage and System.map
% mv /arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1
% mv System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.1
and finally deleted the existing symlinks for System.map and vmlinuz and
made new ones linked to those new files:
% rm System.map
% rm vmlinuz
% ln -s System.map-2.4.1
% ls -s vmlinuz-2.4.1 vmlinuz
So far everything proceeded just fine with no complaints. I figured that the
grub menu.lst just needed a bit of tweaking (to removed references to initrd
that I don't need) and I would be good to go.
... But no. On reboot after the grub time delay I get some message about
decompressing the kernel and asking me to wait ... and that is all. It
doesn't go anywhere after that. I can still boot into the old kernel
(Linux_old) just fine.
I have deleted everything that I described above and did it all over again
thinking I must have made a mistake but it has the same results. Finally I
tried the step that all of the "how to compile a kernel" web sites end on
and added a new section to the lilo.conf file and ran:
% lilo
Now on reboot grub is gone, lilo is taking it's place and it still stops
just after the "decompressing kernel" message.
How do I get grub back working? How do I properly configure grub for the new
kernel? And what else have I missed to get 2.4.1 to boot properly.
Sincere thanks in advance,
Craig Hagerman
