[NBLUG/talk] FW: Update Fedora Core 6 to 2.6.20

[Jippen]

go to the source dir of your kernel (/usr/src/linux) and type `make menuconfig`
Goes through a menu to help set things up. Its not that tedious, and
generally takes you an hour the first time, a half hour the second,
and five minutes after that. To config, not compile.

On 3/24/07, Howard Schnirman <h.schnirman at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Isn't the kernel a compressed file that gets untarred at boot? Are you
> telling me that I have to go through the process of compiling the kernel for
> my machine or is there a config file that I can just open with a text editor
> and comment and uncomment some lines.
>
> Just point me in the right direction, and I think I can get this fixed. What
> did you specifically have to do in Gentoo? Edit a text file or recompile
> from source. I'm not looking forward to compiling a Kernel. Haven't done
> that yet, and I hear it's tedious and time consuming.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
> Jippen
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:42 PM
> To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] FW: Update Fedora Core 6 to 2.6.20
>
> Same thing happened to me in Gentoo. Go through the config, and make
> sure all your IDE, SCSI, and SATA stuff is enabled and compiled into
> the kernel. Once I did that, it worked just fine.
>
> On 3/23/07, howardas at pacbell.net <howardas at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Oops, that was last week.
> >
> > So I guess the question is, is there a known problem with this
> >
> > kernel version??
> >
> >
> >
> > I can always just stick with the 2.6.18 version for now.
> >
> >
> >
> > Howard
> >
> >
> >
> > BTW: Here's the hardware
> >
> >
> >
> > Pretty Basic
> >
> > Desktop: Asus P4P800V Mobo
> >
> > Pentium 4, 2.4 mhz Processor
> >
> > ATI 9600XT Video 128mb
> >
> > Basic Hard Drives, Seagate 120 gig, WD 13 gig
> >
> > HP 9500 CDRW
> >
> > Toshiba DVD ROM
> >
> > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >  From: howardas at pacbell.net [mailto:howardas at pacbell.net]
> >  Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 5:09 PM
> >  To: 'talk at nblug.org'
> >  Subject: Update Fedora Core 6 to 2.6.20
> >
> >
> >
> > I selected update packages, and took the default settings to update all
> the
> > listed packages.
> >
> >
> >
> > On reboot and trying the 2.6.20 I'm getting a system panic error and also
> >
> > cannot find root=/dev/root
> >
> >
> >
> > I booted the 2.6.18 kernel and looked at grub.conf to see how the pathing
> to
> > the
> >
> > 2.6.20 was compared to the 2.6.18 kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > Not much difference. So I'm thinking could some body maybe help me with
> this
> > tomorrow
> >
> > at the Install Fest.
> >
> >
> >
> > Howard
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> >
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