Hiyas

Hiyas

[Mike Chambers]

Hiyas all,

Just found this list and thought I would check it out.  Maybe I can learn a
thing or two as well as help out others.  Been using linux for almost 5
years now total off and on.  Hopefully I can be of some help.

Is this list active?  Hope to talk to you soon,

--------------------
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
Netlyncs

"It's always better to hurt a little now, then to hurt a lot later!"

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Re: Hiyas

[Tom Beer]

Welcome!


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Re: Hiyas

[pshook]

Give this one a try if y wanna help!!

Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me to
the right one?

I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any
errors, but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat. It won't go past
starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements
after the first fail which is eth0.

Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original
kernel but not the new one.

Please help I'm an extreme newbie.



Mike Chambers wrote:

> Hiyas all,
>
> Just found this list and thought I would check it out.  Maybe I can learn a
> thing or two as well as help out others.  Been using linux for almost 5
> years now total off and on.  Hopefully I can be of some help.
>
> Is this list active?  Hope to talk to you soon,
>
> --------------------
> Mike Chambers
> Madisonville, KY
> Netlyncs
>
> "It's always better to hurt a little now, then to hurt a lot later!"
>
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Re: Hiyas

[Amin]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:09:54PM -0800, pshook wrote:

[...]

> Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default
> or what the original kernel on my system is? I can still
> boot with the original

[...]

Try looking in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs (I'm assuming
you're using the 2.4-kernel series).  This directory
contains lots of configuration files (these are the files
that xconfig uses to store all the kernel module and
built-in parts information).  These config files are
defaults that were lovingly crafted by the folks at Red Hat,
and include those modules that most people are most likely
to need.  You probably need one of these.

You're very lucky Red Hat provides great documentation at
their website.  You need to read it!  Go to
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ and get the
``Customization Guide'' for your version.  In that document,
look for the appendix where they describe how to build a
custom kernel, and read it through.  Note that I've got
RH8.0, and can only speak for the ``Customization Guide''
for that version.  However, I have no reason to believe
it'll be that different from those of previous versions.

HTH,
Yawar Amin
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Re: Hiyas

[Amin]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:09:54PM -0800, pshook wrote:

[...]

> Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
> original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original

[...]

I just read the documentation myself, in fact, and
discovered that one command will do exactly what you want:

make oldconfig

It'll restore everything to the ``old'' settings.

Yawar Amin
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Re: Hiyas

[Ray Olszewski]

At 11:09 PM 3/11/2003 -0800, pshook wrote:
>Give this one a try if y wanna help!!
>
>Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me to
>the right one?

This is a mailing list, not a newsgroup ... but other than that, it is a 
god place to pose beginner questions. Others have already given you some 
feedback specific to Red Hat. My comments will be a bit more general (since 
I'm not a Red Hat user).

>I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any
>errors,

Does "it" here refer to the compilation, the install after compilation, or 
the boot/init process? On a guess that it means the first of these, please 
check (after a reboot with the working kernel) whether syslog has logged 
any helpful information in your logs (probably in /var/log)..

>but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat.

Is this the same or a different "it"? Since eth0 is an interface and vfat 
is (probably) a kernel module, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 
"find/load". Could you describe the errors you see a bit more exactly? If 
you are a beginner at kernel compiles, there is any number of possible 
errors that might cause this, including:

         1. Failing to add the required modules to your kernel .config file 
list
         2. Failing to do both "make modules" -AND- "make modules_install" 
during the compilation process.
         3. Failing to add the modules to the list that will be loaded 
during boot/init (I'm hazy on how RH does this; one way to do it is with 
the listing  /etc/modules).

>It won't go past
>starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements
>after the first fail which is eth0.

Do you mean by this that the kernel not only fails to "find/load" eth0 and 
vfat, but that it never completes the boot/init process (that is, you never 
get a login: prompt)? If so, I would wonder if it has the correct root (/) 
filesystem assigned ... check your /etc/lilo.conf (or equivalent, if you 
use a different bootloader) to make sure it has the right root= entry for 
the stanza associated with your custom kernel.

>Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
>original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original
>kernel but not the new one.

The advice someone else provided here is (at least to a degree) Red Hat 
specific; not all kernel-source files include the ./configs directory that 
message suggested.




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