New to Gentoo,

I installed per instructions and compiled my own kernel and everything went
well. I then did the "make dep && make clean bzImage modules
modules_install" and then tried the next step "cp
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot" Guess what, no bzImage. I tried
"make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install" two more times
still nothing.

What am I missing.

Doug

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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:51:49 -0600, Doug <dsommer@NOSPAM.sommer.gotdns.com> wrote:
> New to Gentoo,

Welcome. :-)

> I installed per instructions and compiled my own kernel and everything went
> well. I then did the "make dep && make clean bzImage modules
> modules_install" and then tried the next step "cp
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot" Guess what, no bzImage. I tried
> "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install" two more times
> still nothing.

That's odd -

You don't need to run through the whole thing again like that. Are
there any error messages that pop up as you go along?

What all appears in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/?

Try make bzImage all by itself and see if there are any errors that
appear.

Just to be sure, you're working with a kernel source inside
/usr/src/linux, right? I mean, if you're working in
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22 with no symlinks to /usr/src/linux, the file won't
be there and you need to redirect accordingly.

Let us know what's happening...

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You're using a capital "I", right? I ask because I spent about an
hour a few weeks ago trying to figure out why my kernel wasn't being
built correctly and I was typing "bzimage" instead of "bzImage". The
worst part is that I've been using Linux for a few years and I've done
more kernel builds than I can remember...

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:03:05 -0800, AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net>
wrote:

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>On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:51:49 -0600, Doug <dsommer@NOSPAM.sommer.gotdns.com> wrote:
>> New to Gentoo,
>
>Welcome. :-)
>
>> I installed per instructions and compiled my own kernel and everything went
>> well. I then did the "make dep && make clean bzImage modules
>> modules_install" and then tried the next step "cp
>> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot" Guess what, no bzImage. I tried
>> "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install" two more times
>> still nothing.
>
>That's odd -
>
>You don't need to run through the whole thing again like that. Are
>there any error messages that pop up as you go along?
>
>What all appears in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/?
>
>Try make bzImage all by itself and see if there are any errors that
>appear.
>
>Just to be sure, you're working with a kernel source inside
>/usr/src/linux, right? I mean, if you're working in
>/usr/src/linux-2.4.22 with no symlinks to /usr/src/linux, the file won't
>be there and you need to redirect accordingly.
>
>Let us know what's happening...

It was a kernel error, I got it now. I still can not get the damn thing to
boot. I guess I just keep working on it.

Doug


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> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:51:49 -0600, Doug <dsommer@NOSPAM.sommer.gotdns.com>
wrote:
> > New to Gentoo,
>
> Welcome. :-)
>
> > I installed per instructions and compiled my own kernel and everything
went
> > well. I then did the "make dep && make clean bzImage modules
> > modules_install" and then tried the next step "cp
> > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot" Guess what, no bzImage. I
tried
> > "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install" two more times
> > still nothing.
>
> That's odd -
>
> You don't need to run through the whole thing again like that. Are
> there any error messages that pop up as you go along?
>
> What all appears in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/?
>
> Try make bzImage all by itself and see if there are any errors that
> appear.
>
> Just to be sure, you're working with a kernel source inside
> /usr/src/linux, right? I mean, if you're working in
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 with no symlinks to /usr/src/linux, the file won't
> be there and you need to redirect accordingly.
>
> Let us know what's happening...
>
> --
> Rob | If not safe,
> Email and Jabber: | one can never be free.
> athlonrob at axpr dot net |
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"Doug" <dsommer@NOSPAM.sommer.gotdns.com> wrote in message news:<3fa52403$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net>...
> It was a kernel error, I got it now. I still can not get the damn thing to
> boot. I guess I just keep working on it.
>
> Doug

Did you mount /boot? In Gentoo, if you want to write to /boot, you
have to do a mount /boot, as root, as /boot is not mounted at boot
time. The first time I tried to copy over a new kernel image, I
wondered what was going on, as it didn't work! Coming from Mandrake, I
had forgotten to manually mount /boot. Then I forgot to umount /boot,
and got an error at shutdown (it fixes itself at reboot,that is, it
reverts to being unmounted as is the Gentoo default, so it was no big
deal).

Robert Crawford

Yea success!!!!! Well sort of. I still have some kernel errors on boot but
it boots. Missing modules since I started with a Gentoo script and changed
my mind later. Yes I know, dumb, but I learned.

So, some questions.

1. How do I start over with the config for the kernel? There is a default
there but I want to start over.

2. How do you make the install smaller? Right now with nothing, not even
GUI, it is at 1.1 gigs. Redhat's minimal install and then loading the
packages that I needed barely broke 600 megs.

I started with stage 3 and this is maybe going on a PII 266. So complies
will be an issue. This has been an awesome server of me and I really have no
reason to change it. Again no GUI. Don't need it, don't want it.

Doug

"Robert Crawford" <flacycads@access4less.net> wrote in message
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> "Doug" <dsommer@NOSPAM.sommer.gotdns.com> wrote in message
news:<3fa52403$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net>...
> > It was a kernel error, I got it now. I still can not get the damn thing
to
> > boot. I guess I just keep working on it.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Did you mount /boot? In Gentoo, if you want to write to /boot, you
> have to do a mount /boot, as root, as /boot is not mounted at boot
> time. The first time I tried to copy over a new kernel image, I
> wondered what was going on, as it didn't work! Coming from Mandrake, I
> had forgotten to manually mount /boot. Then I forgot to umount /boot,
> and got an error at shutdown (it fixes itself at reboot,that is, it
> reverts to being unmounted as is the Gentoo default, so it was no big
> deal).
>
> Robert Crawford

Doug wrote:
> Yea success!!!!! Well sort of. I still have some kernel errors on
> boot but it boots. Missing modules since I started with a Gentoo
> script and changed my mind later. Yes I know, dumb, but I learned.
>
> So, some questions.
>
> 1. How do I start over with the config for the kernel? There is a
> default there but I want to start over.

Gah, top post. Anyway, enter the kernel source tree and 'make
mrproper', there you go, clean as can be.


> 2. How do you make the install smaller? Right now with nothing, not
> even GUI, it is at 1.1 gigs. Redhat's minimal install and then
> loading the packages that I needed barely broke 600 megs.

Check /usr/portage/distfiles, that contains all of the source packages
you've downloaded when running emerge. Those can all safely be deleted,
but mind you should you need to re-emerge something, you'll need to
re-download the package, although these days with most people having
some sort of broadband access to the net, not that big of an issue.

Also, /var/tmp/portage, I believe is the directory, can be wiped out
completely. If you, for example, cancel a compile, all kinds of crap is
left in the tmp dir for portage. (Of course, if you changed the portage
temp directory in /etc/make.conf, change to suit your needs).

> I started with stage 3 and this is maybe going on a PII 266. So
> complies will be an issue. This has been an awesome server of me and
> I really have no reason to change it. Again no GUI. Don't need it,
> don't want it.
>
> Doug

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:32:11 -0600, Doug wrote:

> So, some questions.
>
> 1. How do I start over with the config for the kernel? There is a
> default there but I want to start over.

I'm going to add to that:
I was going to recompile the kernel, so I did
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Then I went through everything and changed lots of things, then I
chickened out and quit. (I've never compiled a kernel myself before, I
used genkernel when I installed).

1) Is it OK to run make menuconfig again, and have a default kernel to
start with?
2) I'm using a laptop with a PCMCIA net card, at the moment it works,
is there any risk of things breaking if I recompile the kernel? I
don't have that much time to spare, so I don't want things to break.
3) Is there any reason to recompile it, other than "for the sake of it"?
4) How do I back up my current kernel in case I mess up?

Thanks :-)

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Matt


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