Possible resolution - Re: [lug] Kernel 2.4.18 for C3-based board

[Scott A. Herod]

Hello,

Someone else mentioned that they had had problems building and running 
2.4.18 with SCSI support built in.  I disabled it and some misc. drivers 
that seemed to need it, and the kernel is now booting.  Guess I'll go 
re-enable SCSI support piece-by-piece to see what works and what causes 
it to fail.

Scott

Scott A. Herod wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed RH 7.3 on a new Via board that I got.  Installation 
> was fine and the board works well. ( Except for the XF86 4.2.0 trident 
> driver over the RCA video output.  X with vesa works though. )  I did 
> tell it to use lilo as the boot loader so that I could draw an image on 
> the display at boot time.  I have not found out how to do something 
> similar with grub.
> 
> Prior to making some minor changes to the kernel, I wanted to rebuild 
> RH's default.  It builds with the steps listed below but fails while 
> booting.  It starts with "Loading linux ........" then the machine 
> reboots.  I suspect that I'm making a simple error but cannot figure out 
> what.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Scott
> 
> ======================
> 
> Build steps:
> 
> Install the source RPM from the 7.3 distro.
> Copy source to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-itv.
> Make /usr/source/linux-2.4 point to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-itv.
> In linux-2.4 run:
>    make mrproper
>    cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config .config
>    make xconfig ( Save and exit with no changes )
>    make clean; make dep; make; make modules; make modules_install
>    make bzImage
>    cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-itv
> In /boot, do "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.14-itv.img 2.2.14-itv"
> Edit lilo.conf to say:
> 
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
>         label=linux
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         vga=785
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-itv
>         label=linux2
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-itv.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda2
> 
> Run lilo -v
> 
> 
> 
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