Subject: Re: documentation
From: frame (frame@deadprotocol.org)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 22:49:46 MDT
I've been editing and cleaning up kernel source for the last 2 hours and I've
finally gotten a kernel to boot flawlessly from BootX. This time I have PPP in
the kernel. Everyone so far has told me PPP was installed in a default install,
this didn't seem to be the case with me. A rather interesting discrepency.
Anyways, I now show ppp0 with cat /proc/net/dev, but the line hangs up within 15
seconds...
Benjamin Karas wrote:
> 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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