[LI] Problems in recompiling kernel

["Ritesh Shukla" <ritesh_shukla@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: NEt Surfer <ritesh1shukla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux india <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] Problems in recompiling kernel


                     I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on SIS6215!!!!! thanks
 to Rajesh Fowkar's XF86Config file got it working after some modifications
 !! (I still dont understand everyone's fixation with 1024x768 800x600 is as
 good)
                     Coming back I want to tweak Linux Kernel for my P2 300
&
 want some good advice for the same could you help me out !
 also any good url for the same ?
                     Happy New Year to all..
                    Awaiting loads of advice
 With love & regards
 Ritesh
 ----- Original Message -----
> From: Archan Paul <archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [LI] Problems in recompiling kernel
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kimi <kimi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [LI] Problems in recompiling kernel
> >
> >
> > | We have loaded RH 5.2 on our machine.
> >
> >     no problem.
> >
> > | We want to recompile the kernel after changing some parameters.
> > | As a rehearsal to that we recompiled the kernel without changing
> > | anything
> > | To do this we executed the following steps
> > | -- make menuconfig and save the changes (without making any changes)
> > | -- make dep
> > | -- make clean
> > | -- make bzImage
> >
> >     u should also compile and install the modules by the following
> >         make modules
> >         make modules_install
> >
> > | After which we compared the bzImage file size with /boot/vmlinuz...
file
> > | size.
> > | Much to our surprise we found the the file sizes don't match !!
bzImage
> > | is less
> > | than vmlinuz by about 4K bytes
> >
> >     It should be as the bzImage is more compressed kernel.
> >
> > | Moreover when we went ahead and copied this bzImage to find that
machine
> > | hangs on
> > | reboot... immediately after loading linux.
> >
> >     ur m/c is hanged because u haven't correctly configured the
> > /etc/lilo.conf file.
> >     The exact procedure is
> >         do copy ur bzImage file to /boot
> >         configure the /etc/lilo.conf file to boot with that bzImage
> >         do lilo -v
> >     Thats all.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Archan Paul
> > Lateral Software Technology (Linux Lab),
> > Chennai, India.
> > archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
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