[olug] Can't boot to 2.6 Kernel

[Christopher Cashell]

At Mon, 08 Mar 04, Unidentified Flying Banana CM Miller, said:
> Sure, but in the meantime, I'll continue to work on a
> solution.

You mentioned prior in this thread that you're dealing with a Knoppix
box, correct?  Which means that it's Debian based.

In this case, I'd suggest installing (if it's not already installed) the
Debian package 'kernel-package'.  This is a script that you run which
will compile your kernel for you, and allow you to install the kernel as
a standard Debian package.  It will take care of all the compilation
details, including modules, and will make sure that everything gets
installed where it belongs.

You should be able to install it with:

   yourmachine:~# apt-get update && apt-get install kernel-package

And you can then run it with:

   yourmachine:/usr/src/linux$ make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot binary

And finally, you can then install your new kernel (you will still likely
have to make minor edits to /etc/lilo.conf) with:

   yourmachine:/usr/src/# sudo dpkg -i *.deb

I can't guarantee that this will solve all (or any, necessarily) of your
problems, but it can simplify the kernel installation process, and help
to ensure no steps are being missed.

> later
> 
> -Chris

[Note:  The 'yourmachine:~# ' and 'yourmachine:/usr/src/linux$ '
represent the command prompt where you type in the commands.  If there's
a '#' at the end of the prompt in the examples, then this command needs
to be entered as root.  If there's a '$' at the end of the prompt in the
examples, then this command can be entered as a non-root user.]

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