From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw Subject: Re: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:33:57 +0200 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030426123356.GU19139@lug-owl.de> References: <1051322644.1967.55.camel@Gandalf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YDTWxoC2E3hrC6hC" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org --YDTWxoC2E3hrC6hC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-04-26 10:47:15 +0200, M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote in message : > Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> writes: >=20 > > Ok... here is the deal. > >=20 > > 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)... >=20 > 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. Or 2.5.x. I'm running them for quite some time on NoName, Miata and Avanti with no problems at all. > > Since Lilo is not an option... what happends if I missconfigure > > something??? how do I boot to another kernel??? from the bios console??? >=20 > Have you read the aboot man pages. On Alphas, aboot does what lilo > does on PCs (approximately). aboot (for SRM-based machines), or milo (which is for AlphaBIOS based machines). > > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is > > that the FULL kernel??? >=20 > Is that already compiled? My kernels usually end up around 1.5 MB in > size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed. Maybe it contains loads of drivers. I think you can easily get a 4MB uncompressed kernel image... > > 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... > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Read about aboot. >=20 > 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. I subscribe that. Alpha is _not_ i386, so some things _are_ different. Please, do some reading (and asking) first, then eventually don't shoot your foot. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA)); --YDTWxoC2E3hrC6hC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+qny0Hb1edYOZ4bsRAgFBAJ9C2nHxUF5FsM8L8uOEC5RSDJj1bwCcC7qN A9iANxmIYesGHl+MgtGnITo= =cx9x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YDTWxoC2E3hrC6hC--