[5133] in RedHat Linux List
kernelitis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Wilburn)
Tue Nov 19 08:56:47 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:50:41 -0500
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From: Gene Wilburn <njo@io.org>
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As a newbie to Linux (less than two weeks) I've come a long way -- including
finally getting my AHA1510 card working after the initial install (thanks
mainly to helpful folk on this list). But recompiling the kernel is giving
me the fantods (to quote Huck Finn).
I've read the Kernet HOWTO, the Redhat 4.0 user's guide, and Running Linux
over and over, and I've recompiled the kernel three times. (I'm at version
2.0.18). I've followed all the steps carefully and have made very
conservative choices.
Every time I rebuild, I get a kernel that seems to work, but I also get a
stream of error messages or warnings at boot time. One set I've figured out
-- looking for dependencies (I've built a monolithic kernel). I was able to
eliminate these messages with #depmod -a in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit but I'm
still getting a stream of insmod messages that end in "wrong version or
undefined".
I'm wondering about the line "initrd=/boot/initrd" in the boot stanza of my
lilo.conf. Should this be removed if I have a monolithic kernel? The
original installation boot contained this line so I was reluctant to delete it.
Also, is there a way to trap these boot-time error messages into a file?
They don't appear in /var/log/messages along with the other lines displaying
on the console and they swish by too fast to read.
Thanks,
Gene (who is looking forward to actually using Linux instead of installing it)
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