Hi!
After installing kubuntu, I began to do the things I have been doing for years with other distributions without any significant problems.
On kubuntu as for Debian, they are a nightmare ...
May be it's my fault or may be not ...
Let's look at this odissey:
1. My current systems use lilo. So, because kubuntu is yet in the lab (to tailor and install needed applications), I tried to place a lilo entry in my general lilo.conf to boot kubuntu.
No way. kubuntu does not boot with lilo!!! The same happened a couple of months ago with debian.
Removing "quiet" and "splash" the system hangs with the message
[xxxxxxx.xxxxxx] request-module: Runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
2. Trying to compile the kernel:
I installed linux-source and the needed SW to compile the kernel.
I copied the .config file from /boot and tryed to compile it. No way!
It stops with compilation errors.
I used "make menuconfig" to reduce the kernel to my needs and
finally got it compiled! But, instead of getting a 2.6.15.23 kernel I got
2.6.15.7!!! APTITUDE showed 2.6.15.23 when I installed the sources.
I used the command
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
and then installed it with "dpkg -i".
OK, the kernel boots but the splash has gone!!!
When gunzipping and cpio -idv the initrd.img I could see things missing
relatively to the original initrd.img. Besides, I could see the file
conf/modules containing the list of my root dir (like "ls /") followed by "unix"!
Is anybody there who knows about this stuff and can give me a little help.
Thank you very much.
After installing kubuntu, I began to do the things I have been doing for years with other distributions without any significant problems.
On kubuntu as for Debian, they are a nightmare ...
May be it's my fault or may be not ...
Let's look at this odissey:
1. My current systems use lilo. So, because kubuntu is yet in the lab (to tailor and install needed applications), I tried to place a lilo entry in my general lilo.conf to boot kubuntu.
No way. kubuntu does not boot with lilo!!! The same happened a couple of months ago with debian.
Removing "quiet" and "splash" the system hangs with the message
[xxxxxxx.xxxxxx] request-module: Runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
2. Trying to compile the kernel:
I installed linux-source and the needed SW to compile the kernel.
I copied the .config file from /boot and tryed to compile it. No way!
It stops with compilation errors.
I used "make menuconfig" to reduce the kernel to my needs and
finally got it compiled! But, instead of getting a 2.6.15.23 kernel I got
2.6.15.7!!! APTITUDE showed 2.6.15.23 when I installed the sources.
I used the command
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
and then installed it with "dpkg -i".
OK, the kernel boots but the splash has gone!!!
When gunzipping and cpio -idv the initrd.img I could see things missing
relatively to the original initrd.img. Besides, I could see the file
conf/modules containing the list of my root dir (like "ls /") followed by "unix"!
Is anybody there who knows about this stuff and can give me a little help.
Thank you very much.