Problems - Compiling and Installing the Kernal

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

When I was compiling the kernal.....

For 2.4 kernel)
# make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install

(For 2.6 kernel)
# make && make modules_install

I used the 2.4 instead of the 2.6

is there somethign i need to do to go back and redo it?

or can i just rerun the 2.6 kernal?
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cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

just recompile and

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Ok great! I would of hated starting over.

Me and emerge are fast becoming enemies! :lol:

thanks for the quick reply!

Urlryn
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i92guboj · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

Well, if you are using devfs then the migration should be no problem. If it was running ok there is no reason for it not to work now. You can even have the two versions installed and decide what of them to boot from a grub/lilo menu.
Btw: the 2..6 command should be 'make && make install modules_install', the line you posted would install the modules, but not the kernel itself.

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Ahh ok thanks for the correction

The lines came directly from the 2005.0 Install Guide

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7

Code Listing 15: Compiling the kernel

(For 2.4 kernel)
# make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install

(For 2.6 kernel)
# make && make modules_install

was this a mistake?
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i92guboj · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

I did not see that, vow! That's a bug. Do you know where can we report this thing?

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Nope No clue!

But if anybody will point me in the right place ill place a bug report

I maybe should modify the Title so others may want to see?
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i92guboj · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:

I found, I did not know that bugzilla has a place for docs also. I reported here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87814
Hopefully it will be ok soon.

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Also i'm getting another problem right after compiling the kernal.

It prompts for a diskette and proceeds to create....i fdformat /dev/fd0 before running this

but i still get space and lilo errors

Click here to see the error
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cyrillic · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject:

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

So its ok to skip this ?

i just updated the image file with trying to 'mkboot -installkernel'

and added more errors

Also when i attempt to do this the first time

Code Listing 16: Installing the kernel
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r3

I got the message
livecd linux # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
cp: writing `/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4': No space left on device

so i did a df -kh and it shows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ROOT 1.5G 969M 546M 64% /

whats going on?
If i'm reading this right....we are trying to copy bzImage and and rename it to kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 correct?
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Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Also here is the listing for /boot

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 3 11:46 System.map -> System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Apr 3 11:46 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Apr 3 10:51 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 3 11:46 System.map.old -> System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Apr 2 12:14 boot -> .
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 3 11:46 config -> config-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K Apr 3 11:46 config-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K Apr 3 10:51 config-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 3 11:46 config.old -> config-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636K Apr 3 19:00 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 3 11:46 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M Apr 3 11:46 vmlinuz-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M Apr 3 10:51 vmlinuz-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 3 11:46 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-2.6.11-gentoo-r4.old

can I remove all the .old files?
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Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Ok my screen went all funky so i had to close out my SSH session

but i did notice this now
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 127960 5304 122656 5% /
/newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0
695772 695772 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/loop/0 53248 53248 0 100% /mnt/livecd
tmpfs 127960 1128 126832 1% /lib/firmware
/dev/sda3 1550220 989504 560716 64% /mnt/gentoo
/dev/sda1 40120 40120 0 100% /mnt/gentoo/boot

sda1 is full...so how were we able to do all this other stuff previously unless it was redirecting it to sda3?
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:15 am Post subject:

Urlryn · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Houston, TX

Hmm anyway to change it without having to start over since the boot partition is only 32MB?

Already spent 32 hours trying to get one installation done and its still not completed.
Ain't no way i'm starting over if i can help it hehe

I got it!

just backed up boot and formated as ext2 =)
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