kernel compiling question

[Fred Blaise]

forget me... forgot to run mkinitrd :P

cheers

fred

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:23 +0100, Fred Blaise wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I was trying to compile a kernel today, just to get rid of
> CONFIG_PREEMPT, to troubleshoot some wifi driver.
> Copied the /boot/config-2.6.10-5-686 to .config in my /usr/src/linux
> pointing to linux-2.6.10 source dir, commented out the CONFIG_PREEMPT in
> my .config file, make oldconfig, make bzImage, make modules && make
> modules_install.
> Copied the arch/i386/boot/bzImage to my /boot dir, edit GRUB. Tried to
> boot on my new kernel... and nothing. Just a black screen. 
> 
> Why?
> 
> I have looked at the ubuntu howto for kernel compiling, but the above
> has always worked for me. 
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> fred
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