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The Swede

2001-12-11, 4:02 pm

I have installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a computer at home but I have some problems with the Kernal I compiled.

Could you tell me if this is completly wrong:
startx
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage

When I try to boot the new Kernel I only get to the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux" message then nothing happends. I tried to press CTRL+C and got the message:

INIT: entering runlevel: 3
/etc/rc.d/rc: /var/run/runlevel.dir: Read-only file system
Updating /etc/fstab

then nothing more happend. Could you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
sibley

2001-12-12, 7:04 am

Sounds like you do not have X setup correctly. Try to rerun XF86Setup and see if you get a working X server.
The Swede

2001-12-12, 8:51 am

X works fine, the problem is that I can't boot the new Kernel.
sibley

2001-12-12, 9:05 am

Did you make a backup of your previous kernel? You could have altered something that made it unbootable.
The Swede

2001-12-12, 9:27 am

Yes, I did and appearantly it is quite unbootable. Would be nice to knew where I f*cked up though.
neuralfx

2001-12-13, 7:22 pm

post your lilo.conf .. you can use a boot disk, like with Trinux on it or something, to read it ..
-neural
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