From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> Subject: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE) Date: 25 Apr 2003 23:04:04 -0300 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1051322644.1967.55.camel@Gandalf> Reply-To: 333101@personal.net.py Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Ok... here is the deal. I've read a couple tutorials on compiling kernel and stuff... but in both my machines I have Mandrake 9.1 and a friend told me that it had some compatibility issues with the new plain kernel... ANyway... the problem is that I want to put the new kernel (not the latest, just 2.4.20) on my Alphaserver200 Is that possible.. (I KNOW IT IS)... Since Lilo is not an option... what happends if I missconfigure something??? how do I boot to another kernel??? from the bios console??? I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is that the FULL kernel??? I'm currently running RH7.0 on my alpha and It's an important machine in my network... it's the router and the http/sendmail/ftp/etc server... I'd appreciate all the help you can give me here... I'm new to linux (at least at this level) and I certainly never did somthing like this... I don't want to screw THIS one... I'm already downloading RH9 that isn't supposed to have any trouble with the not-mdified kernel... so I think I can screw that one up a few times... also... it's an x86 intel... so LILO works and I can boot to any kernel I want. Thanks a lot. -- Alan Bort Linux Registered User 298277 -Country Manager- [http://counter.li.org] [ http://www.linuxquestions.org ] Username: Ciccio [ http://es.tldp.org ] Ciccio.-