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Nicholas Comino wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Trying to recompile a kernel to get
LAN working (ALi 1689 chipset driver). The instructions I was trying to
follow were from <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73436">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73436</a> which
have worked in the past, and I really don't know what I managed to
stuff up this time. Previously I had kernel 2.6.10 working, and was
trying to redo the same thing by adding in the correct driver modules
into /usr/src/linux-2.6.10/drivers/net/tulip/. I'm starting to think
what I did the first time was to leave out a "-" somewhere, the error
was "file not found". The second time around I tried to compile
straight over the top of the working 2.6.10 kernel. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The error on reboot: </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting
the jernel. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">audit(1106411054.995:0): initialized</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">AC'97 1 access is not valid
[0xffffffff], removing mixer.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Unable to initialize codec #1</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS:
Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">and the system needs to be
rebooted. I still have the original kernel booting. Previously errors
flashed by when shutting down and rebooting things were going wrong
with IP-Tables.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">On my instructions, the last command
"/sbin/grub-install" never works. I wonder if that's an error. The
problem might also be being caused by the Nvidia graphics driver, but I
can't retrace that problem just at the moment. One last important
symptom, when recompiling the kernel there were substantially less
modules compiled and even fewer installed (make modules, make
modules_install) where previously these took up to 20mins they took
less than a minute and seconds respectively. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have another shot at making it
work, but one more botch and I am likely to have to reinstall the OS.
Can I recover the previous compile? Or any idea what I did so I don't
stuff it again? It's probably a typo somewhere. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* feels like the most accident prone
linux newbie ever. </font></div>
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Try my guide
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91503">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91503</a>,
should be quite straight fowrward on FC... Are you using a vanilla
kernel? If so, I'd suggest you to install the Alan Cox (AC series)
patchset (since FC and RHEL kernels incorporate them too), then just
use the FC 2.6.10 config as a template to finish up configuration (I'd
strongly suggest make gconfig, xconfig or menuconfig), and build. Nice
thing about Fedora and Red Hat is that they understand perfectly the
install-kernel script and as such you won't have to do anything to have
it listed in GRUB and stuff.<br>
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