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Re: Recompiling the kernel...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Tue Oct 27 22:53:40 1998

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:57:19 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: pinky@mail.usmo.com
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Good day, Stefan,

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Red Hat Mailing List wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have installed RH5.0 on my alpha 200 with kernel 2.0.30.  However, I
> now need to recompile the kernel with smb support and am using 2.0.34
> which I installed from the RPMs.  I have a *very* minimal kernel of 617K
> and only like 5 options defined.  Anyway, it all goes thru fine and makes
> the vmlinux.gz file in /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot.  I ran 'make boot
> 2>compile6' to capture the errors and there are indeed errors.  The
> problem is this, tho, when I reboot, milo loads sda2:vmlinux.gz and after
> it uncompresses the file, it gets this far:
> Command line: bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinux.gz
> And then an infinite loop of:
> Aiee: scheduling in interrupt fffffc0000313348
> Can anyone tell me what this means and how I can recompile my kernel.
> Thank you very much!

	Sorry, I don't know what that error is.  You might try looking
through 
http://www.alphalinux.org
There's a pointer there to Alpha kernel patches and precompiled kernels.
	Best of luck,
	- Bill

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