Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread PJ
Karthik Ramgopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, and was able to make menuconfig, make initrd, bzImage etc. I even added an entry to grub.conf so that I could boot into it. Problem is that kernel starts to boot, but hangs at loading system

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread sandip
Karthik Ramgopal wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, and was able to make menuconfig, make initrd, bzImage etc. I even added an entry to grub.conf so that I could boot into it. Problem is that kernel starts to boot, but hangs at loading system activity data

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: Karthik Ramgopal wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, if you just need a newer kernel, try rawhide, that has pretty much the latest stuff released and built. 2.6.20-1.2986 is there in

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karthik Ramgopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, and was able to make menuconfig, make initrd, bzImage etc. I even added an entry to grub.conf so that I could boot into it. Problem is that kernel starts to

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Mahesh T. Pai wrote: 1. Read the Kernel-HOWTO. ;-) 2. copy /boot/config-working-kernel-version to /usr/src/linux/ 3. Re-read the Kernel-HOWTO 4. Say `make oldconfig' - this should give you a bloated, but working kernel. Answer the questions on the command line. 5. Compile the kernel.

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Shakthi Kannan
HI, On 3/14/07, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mahesh, while this most likely works in some places, I'd recommend you stick with the packaging and system management options that your distro was built for. It depends on what the user wants the kernel for. If the user wants to do

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
( I am not sure how your answer related to the Karthik's question since you can build all kernel.org release kernels as rpms, but here goes.. ) Shakthi Kannan wrote: It depends on what the user wants the kernel for. If the user wants to do device driver/kernel development, the developers

[ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-13 Thread Karthik Ramgopal
Hi, I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, and was able to make menuconfig, make initrd, bzImage etc. I even added an entry to grub.conf so that I could boot into it. Problem is that kernel starts to boot, but hangs at loading system activity data collector (sadc). After 5

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karthik Ramgopal wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, if you just need a newer kernel, try rawhide, that has pretty much the latest stuff released and built. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]