 | | | Kernel booting - my head hurts! | Kernel booting - my head hurts! 2003-12-31 - By David W.E. Roberts
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Hi,
update -
I decided that there might be some funny linkage/symbolic linkage going on,
so copied the /boot/vmlinuz.... to /boot/wibble.
Ran /sbin/mkinitrd to make wibble.img .
Edited /etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo.
Rebooted.
Yay! I now got the new kernel. So some strange linkage problems confirmed.
Very strange indeed - when I rebooted using the 'linux' option in LILO I got
the new kernel not the old one - so creating the 'wibble' copy somehow
removed the original problem with the new 'linux' copy.
Stranger things happen at sea, I suppose, but this was wierd!
Now onto my next problem.
Back with the new kernel I now can boot.
I copied my source tree, then ran 'make xconfig' to make the new kernel
configuration (using the original source tree).
I assumed that it would pick up the configuration from the previous
(automatic install) build and let me tweak it.
However it is obvious that the configuration is significantly different;
notably no support for the 'ext3' file system and no knowledge of the
'tulip' device which is my network card.
I can go back and rebuild the kernel again to try and fix these, but I would
prefer to go back to my original (built on install) configuration and
re-apply the changes I made when building my new kernel.
So where do I find the original configuration file?
It is obvious that running 'make xconfig' is not picking it up
automatically.
I assume there is one - if so I should be able to import it into xconfig.
TIA
Dave R
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