Compiling my custom kernel...

Rain Designs · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject: Compiling my custom kernel...

I'm at the point in the install where I'm supposed to compile my custom kernel. The installation inscructions say I have to enable a lot of different things (ex: Ext3 and Ext2) How do I enable these and when do I enable them?

Another question: how do I edit /etc/fstab? I tried pico, and pico wasn't found, I tried halt, and I'm not too sure what extension to use (ex: -i, -p, etc)Any ideas?

Thanks

-Rain
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 1:05 am Post subject:

Get into menuconfig and poke around a bit. menuconfig has a conclusive help system, just "make menuconfig" and go to help. It will tell you what everything means (i.e. the difference betteen [*] and <M>) as well as explain about 96% of the kernel options.

As stated in the install guide, nano (a pico clone) is the editor included on the install CD.
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mendezke · Guest

about the editing

if you have read the documentation it would be very clear because they mention it a couple of times

you don't have to use 'pico' but 'nano' it's a pico clone and looks exact the same with the same keystrokes

nano -w /etc/fstab (-w is for disabling wordwrap)

Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 2:41 am Post subject:

well I thought I did everything right, but this is what I get...

Searching IDE0 for boot...OK
Li

and it sits there. The only thing I didn't really configure was grub. besides that, everything else was installed right, I think.

Thanks

-Rain
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 3:25 am Post subject:

alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

Looks like he's using Lilo instead of Grub. If you head over to the Lilo page, there's a good help system - just remember that Lilo stopped on "Li". Each letter will tell you how far it loaded, and what's the problem - you just need to check the docs.

Or just use grub, it's much easier.

delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:05 am Post subject:

Ahh... I should have seen that earlier. Looks like the tail end of an AmiBIOS boot process. Yeah... I'm not having a good day since the fdisk thing earler.

Anyway, give Grub a shot.
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Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:13 am Post subject:

well for the grub this is what I did...

grub> root (hd0,2) (because my root is installed in hda3
grub> setup (hd0) and I got an error

so then I quit.

I forgot what the error was though

thanks!

-Rain
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:15 am Post subject:

Error messages are always helpful, if you know what I mean.

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Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:45 am Post subject:

k i'll point it to boot. Um, I'm tring to enable "UDE DMA by default" and "IDE disk" but I can't find them in menuconfig. I searched everwhere and I couldn't find them! Do you know where these are?

Thanks

-Rain
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:51 am Post subject:

ATA/IDE section...
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Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:55 am Post subject:

I dont' see "Device File System" but I do see /dev file system support (experimental), is this what I want? and if I enable this, should I enable it to be mounted at boot?

Thanks

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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:56 am Post subject:

You want that (answer "Y", so it's <*>), but you don't want it to mount on boot. The Gentoo init scripts do that for you.
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Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:58 am Post subject:

I love this forum!!

Thanks delta

I think everything is installed.

NOW GET SOME SLEEP!!!

-Rain

do I want sysklogd, syslog-ng, or metalog?
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:02 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:15 am Post subject:

OMG GENTOO IS UP AND RUNNING!!!!! AFTER 2 DAYS OF WORK!!!!!!

THANKS EVERYONE!!!
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delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

I have to remind you to consider using the "Praise" forum.

Welcome to Gentoo.
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