Re: kernel upgrade doesn't work

[Alex Thiel]

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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> > > ---- 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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