isnogood Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 Hi, I think I've seriously meesed things up.... Got a A7N8X mobo, with a AMD Barton 2500XP, 1Gb of ram. I saw that the mdk 9.1 stanard kernel only detected 896Mb. Researching showed me two possible options: boot enterprise kernel, or recompile kernel with the correct mem option (4Gb). Ran the enterprise kernel, but this one only starts in text mode (?), and didn't recognize my second ethernet card (both onboard) As I had some experience with recompiling kernels (Suse 8.0), I though let's go!. I've read the readme in /usr/src/linux, done the whole list of make's. Copied the bzImage to /boot. But think I screwed it up here. The actual vmlinuz is no longer a link, but the copy of bzImage. Lilo & boot. System gives me a series of 'busybox' msg's. And tells me to add something to 'init=' at the boot. Then I thought, but what about the *.map file? Copied that one also. Same stuff: no boot. Q: how to I correctly recompile the kernel, modules, etc? And how to I re-install all this? TIA, isnogood (yeah!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 Welcome to the board. The standard kernel is supposed to be good for memory up to 1GIG, Don't know if you tried this but, if you insert CD1 and at the install screen press the ESC key, then type "rescue" (no quotes) it says among other things " found bla bla memory, you can type in your actual memory which might solve the problem, try putting 999MB. It might be easier /quicker than compiling your kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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