Recompiling new kernel (was:USB WiFi adapter for PBs)

Ebrahim Mayat ebmayat at mac.com
Sun Jul 30 17:24:16 MDT 2006


On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Jason DeVita wrote:

> //
> [6] Reboot and pray.  Upon rebooting, you'll get the normal choice  
> of cdrom, osx, or linux.  After you choose linux, yaboot will give  
> you a prompt (only for a couple seconds -- so be ready, or else it  
> will boot the old kernel).  Type "myhairisonfire" (or whatever name  
> you chose) at the prompt and you will boot the new kernel.  If  
> things go bad, you can return to the old kernel by rebooting.
> =====================================
>
> Well, hopefully I haven't made any mistakes.  Report back with any  
> question or problems!  The nice thing about building a kernel for  
> the first time is that it is a win-win situation.  Either  
> everything will work just fine, or you'll get to learn a lot about  
> how linux works!
>
> -J

Jason

Ignore my previous message. Everything compiled properly and the  
subsequent steps went without any problem. Only when I try to boot my  
newly-compiled kernel, I get the following mesage

Please wait, loading kernel...
/pci at f4000000/ata-6-6 at d/disk at 0:6,/boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7: No such file  
or directory

(The original kernel boots normally.)

Any ideas?
Again, many thanks for your detailed howto.

Regards,
Ebrahim


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