Michael D. Setzer II
2005-Feb-05 08:34 UTC
[syslinux] Looking for some guidance in creating a new kernel..
I've been making modifications to the G4l freshmeat/sourceforge project. Unfortunately, the project person hasn't responded to email, and doesn't seem to have checked in since 11/18. The project is a bootable CD image, and it uses the kernel from kernel.org, and the isolinux. The current setup includes two kernel files called g4l and g4lold. Only those files and the isolinux file are in the directory. This works fine for my needs, but another user posted a message that it doesn't recognize his LSI scsi card. So, I downloaded the kernel.org file, and went into building the kernel with extra scsi options, but I've tried about various options in both building the kernel and files ot copy. All have the system boot up, but selecting the new kernel gives a message of invalid or corrupt image. Are there options that would make this not work with the isolinux. In building the new images, I have tried setting the P4 options, since my systems are P4's with the hyperthreading. Other than that, I selected not to include modual support since, I am assuming it is setup to have everything built into the kernel, since the lib directory on the CD is empty. I've tried using the bzImage file and the vmlinux files, but they have all come up as invalid. The last time I did the build, I did the make mrproper to clean out the old settings, and then make menuconfig, and finally make. This ends with a message about the bzImage file, and the beginning of the file looks like the g4l and g4lold images.The difference is that the built image is like 9.5MB, where the g4l and g4lold images are 2.9MB and 1.4MB. I though it might be the size of the ramdrive, so I modified it from 32MB to 64MB, but the other kernels still work, and I get the same error. I looked for some step by step instructions for the process of building the kernel for use with isolinux, but haven't found anything. Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,503 Processing time: 30 years, 14 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes (Total Hours: 263,149)
Geert Stappers
2005-Feb-05 12:40 UTC
[syslinux] Looking for some guidance in creating a new kernel..
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:34:32PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: <snip/>> I looked for some step by step instructions for the process of > building the kernel for use with isolinux, but haven't found anything.The very blunt response is to ignore you, because you missed a recent posting on this mailing which is archive at http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2005-February/004722.html The more tactfull response is to tell about http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum which states Choose your forum carefully Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. Cheers Geert Stappers P.S. For those who might feel offended, note that I addressing the mailinglist, it is nothing personal. It is up to _us_ to educate our community members.
Michael D. Setzer II
2005-Feb-05 14:52 UTC
[syslinux] Looking for some guidance in creating a new kernel..
On 5 Feb 2005 at 13:40, Geert Stappers wrote: Date sent: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:40:59 +0100 To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: Re: [syslinux] Looking for some guidance in creating a new kernel.. From: stappers at stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:34:32PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > <snip/> > > I looked for some step by step instructions for the process of > > building the kernel for use with isolinux, but haven't found anything. > > The very blunt response is to ignore you, > because you missed a recent posting on this mailing which is > archive at http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2005-February/004722.html >Well, I guess everyone knows your rude. But the like above goes to an unknown terminal type message, and has nothing to do with my question. I had looked at the archives for February and January, and hadn't found what would appear to be any messages related to my question. This is the list that comes up on the contact page, so if it isn't the right list to ask the question, then why is it there. I chose the only message list that was listed on the contact page. I found the smart-questions very useful, but with the informaiton I was provided from the web page, I believe I went about things correctly. I looked thru the web page and could not locate any information about requirements for using the kernel I did some additional searching on the web, and found lots of references, but nothing like a simple how to. I wasn't looking for someone to do the work for me, but perhaps point me to where to find some information. Thanks for the reply....> The more tactfull response is to tell > about http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum > which states > > > Choose your forum carefully > > Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. > > > > > Cheers > Geert Stappers > > > P.S. > > For those who might feel offended, > note that I addressing the mailinglist, it is nothing personal. > It is up to _us_ to educate our community members. > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. >+----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,503 Processing time: 30 years, 14 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes (Total Hours: 263,149)