Re: kernel upgrade doesn't work

[Derrik Pates]

> ---- snip -----------
> Boot 'Red Hat Linux-new (2.4.18)'
> root (hd0,0)
>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/hda6
> Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
> ---- snip -----------

How did you install the newly-constructed kernel? You should be copying
arch/i386/boot/zImage or arch/i386/boot/bzImage (depending on whether
you made a zImage or bzImage). Don't try to copy and use the 'vmlinux'
file that's in the main kernel source directory after the build - x86
systems can't be booted with that image (some other systems, like
PowerPC, will use that uncompressed image file, but x86 is NOT one of
those).

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