[NCLUG] Linux 2.4.0....

[Doug Holland]

On Saturday 06 January 2001 11:36 pm, you wrote:

> > Hey guys,
>
> I configured/compiled the new kernel a few days ago, and now even my
> 2.2.16 kernel won't boot!  I'm not too experianced with compiling and
> installing kernels, so I was wondering what I could of possibly done
> to render my old kernel useless too?  I'm pretty sure I kept the
> kernels in a seperate place, and I made seperate LILO entries for
> each.  When I do try to boot any of the kernels it says
> "Uncompressing Kernel....... Ok, booting"  and freezes after that. 
> Any ideas what I did to cause this?

I'm just downloading kernel 2.4.0 myself, but I remember one thing.  
Did you do a "make bzImage" or just "make zImage".  Most of the time it 
is impossible to build a recent kernel and have it fit within the 
zImage memory constraints.

Doug