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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
make zlilo
less chance of error that way.
Also make sure th compressed kernel image is to to big, this can cause problems, best way to shrink it is to place whatever you can in a module form.
Don't forget "make modules" & "make modules_install"
Hippy.