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Linux boot error....HELP!

I have recently installed Slackware Linux with no problems except no sound. Therefore I ventured to re-configure and compile the Kernel.

The PC spec. is as follows....
1. Intel P166 with 128 MB
2. 2 x IDE drives with an IDE/ATAPI CD ROM om secondary slave
3. Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM video card (no accelerator card)
4. Kingston PCI Ethernet adapter - no network but terminated
5. Motorola VoiceSurf 56Kbps internal modem
6. Soundblaster Pro sound card
7. A-Bit 430VX series Intel chipset main-board

I have configured the Kernel with 'make config', followed by 'make dep' to configure associated modules and then 'make clean'. Finally I have compiled using 'make zImage'.

I have copied the newly compiled compressed image to '/vmlinuz', configured '/etc/lilo.conf' and ran 'lilo'

I have an NT4.0 server dual boot setp which worked fine with the initiai installation but when booting to the new kernel image I get either....

LILO Linux.new.......
.....unable to fill buffer
-- System halted.

Or the Kernel begins to load and then issues the following schrolling error....

child 'XXXX' died with error ff00

Anyone have any ideas - 100 points on the table :)

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rigsby

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rigsby

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ahoffmann

If you're using lilo on MBR, have you run lilo after recompiling the kernel?

rbr

Have you made make modules and make modules_install if you use a kernel with modules.

mainka

please dump exactly what in your /etc/lilo.conf is.

if you use the windows NT boot manager to load linux (this works) then you have to update the bootsector of the windows NT boot manager. (dd if=/dev/hd_your_linux_partition of=/dos/c/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1)

somberlain

The cmd line I use to make a kernel is:

cd /usr/src/linux ; make config dep clean install modules modules_install ; lilo ; reboot

after you setup config, the rest runs and you can go do something for 5 minutes while your system updates and reboots back to the new kernel.

mainka

my way of doing things:

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make dep; make clean; make zImage
cd arch/i386/boot
mv /boot/vmlinuz-current /boot/vmlinuz-old
mv zImage /boot/vmlinuz-current
vi /etc/lilo.conf
lilo
cd /usr/src/linux
make modules
make modules_install
reboot

now, what i need to help you would be the output of a simple
cat /etc/lilo.conf

You probably didn't copy the right image. You should type:

- backup your old kernel (ie. mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.234)
from your linux sourcetree:
- cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz

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