Re: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE)

[Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>]

El sáb, 26 de 04 de 2003 a las 05:47, Måns Rullgård escribió:
> Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> writes:
> 
> > 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)...
> 
> Don't use 2.4.20 on Alpha, it has nasty bugs.  2.4.19 is fine, as are
> 2.4.21-pre1 and up.
Ok. I'll dload it.

> 
> > Since Lilo is not an option... what happends if I missconfigure
> > something??? how do I boot to another kernel??? from the bios console???
> 
> Have you read the aboot man pages.  On Alphas, aboot does what lilo
> does on PCs (approximately).
I'll read them

> > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is
> > that the FULL kernel???
> 
> Is that already compiled?  My kernels usually end up around 1.5 MB in
> size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed.
well: 4,0M    patch-2.4.20.bz2

that's what du patch-2.4.20.bz2 returns....

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Read about aboot.
> 
> If you're new at this stuff, you WILL screw it up once or twice before
> you learn it.  That doesn't mean that you'll loose any data, of
> course.
But I will be able to boot to my good kernel... won't I?

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