RE: kernel upgrade doesn't work

[Gregg C Levine]

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
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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
Of
> Derrik Pates
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:23 AM
> To: Bernd Prager
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade doesn't work
> 
> > ---- 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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