RE: kernel upgrade doesn't work

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Positive. They say that are supplying unpatched kernel source code. And
having met Patrick Volkerding, at least once this life, I believe the
man. Not like Red Hat which delivers it, with patches. And I have seen
it happen here. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
Of
> Alex Thiel
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:27 PM
> To: Gregg C Levine; Bug-Grub
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade doesn't work
> 
> On Friday 29 March 2002 17:56, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > I disagree most strongly. I have here, a Pentium 100Mhz based
system,
> > running Linux, Slackware Pre-8.0 in fact. And each time I make up a
new
> > kernel, with "make && make install", that series of steps copies
that
> > one to the boot locations. In fact each time the system recommends
using
> 
> Are you sure? Usually "make install" installs the bzImage on a Pentium
system
> unless Slackware has patched the kernel. See arch/i386/Makefile.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
>       Alex
> 
> > one of what you suggested, but I go ahead anyway, and use those
series
> > of steps. So, something else is wrong with his setup. Which
distribution
> > is it?
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> >
> > Of
> >
> > > Derrik Pates
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:23 AM
> > > To: Bernd Prager
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Subject: Re: kernel upgrade doesn't work
> > >
> > > > ---- 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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