[Gllug] Kernel Questions

[French, Alastair]

Hi all

I have some questions on getting a new kernel to boot.

I am running SuSe 7.3 with a 2.2.18 kernel, and want to upgrade to 2.4.18
from the sources.

I have built the kernel, with make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make
bzImage, make modules & make modules_install and this is fine. I copied the
image to /boot and labelled it as vmlinuz-2.4.18. 

On editing lilo.conf there are a couple of options I'm not sure on.

initrd = xxx, as far as I can see this is for loading a init ram disk to
allow any special drivers needed for access to the boot device i.e SCSI
modules is this correct. I am booting from an IDE drive so I shouldn't need
anything here should I?

map = should this point to the System.map created as part of the kernel
build. I want to keep all the settings I had before so I can boot into the
orignal kernel if this doesn't work etc.

If I miss out these options the PC boots OK but does not load a lot of
modules (USB fails to start on boot for example) is this due to the
System.map. Where should I put this.

Thanks in advance

Alastair




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