Subject: Re: documentation
From: Benjamin Karas (bjk4@po.cwru.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 20:42:02 MDT
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, frame wrote:
> The BootX documentation states that it only works with uncompressed
> kernels. I am assuming I create these with "make vmlinux" as opposed to the
> "make zImage" I am used to. Problem is, as I said before, YDL doesn't boot
> with the new kernel. It hangs at "Booting..."
>
> any ideas?
I've successfully compiled 2.2.12 using make zImage. Should that command
succeed, you will find a vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux (or wherever). I
don't know about boot errors, as I have just recompiled with a different
version and/or settings until it worked for me.
With the newer BootX, you can create a folder (as described in the
documentation) for all the vmlinux files. You can then rename them and
select them from a menu in the BootX screen. This is useful for switching
kernels faster than any other platform out there.
-Ben
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