Subject: Re: documentation
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 21:54:37 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...
What do you logs tell you about why it hangs up, etc.?
>
> 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
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
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