On Sat, 2003-04-26 10:47:15 +0200, Måns Rullgård <mru@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote in message <yw1xel3p4pd8.fsf@zaphod.guide>:
> Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> writes:
>
> > Ok... here is the deal.
> >
> > I've read a couple tutorials on compiling kernel and stuff... but in
> > both my machines I have Mandrake 9.1 and a friend told me that it had
> > some compatibility issues with the new plain kernel... ANyway... the
> > problem is that I want to put the new kernel (not the latest, just
> > 2.4.20) on my Alphaserver200 Is that possible.. (I KNOW IT IS)...
>
> Don't use 2.4.20 on Alpha, it has nasty bugs. 2.4.19 is fine, as are
> 2.4.21-pre1 and up.
Or 2.5.x. I'm running them for quite some time on NoName, Miata and
Avanti with no problems at all.
> > Since Lilo is not an option... what happends if I missconfigure
> > something??? how do I boot to another kernel??? from the bios console???
>
> Have you read the aboot man pages. On Alphas, aboot does what lilo
> does on PCs (approximately).
aboot (for SRM-based machines), or milo (which is for AlphaBIOS based
machines).
> > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is
> > that the FULL kernel???
>
> Is that already compiled? My kernels usually end up around 1.5 MB in
> size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed.
Maybe it contains loads of drivers. I think you can easily get a 4MB
uncompressed kernel image...
> > I'm currently running RH7.0 on my alpha and It's an important machine in
> > my network... it's the router and the http/sendmail/ftp/etc server...
> >
> > I'd appreciate all the help you can give me here... I'm new to linux (at
> > least at this level) and I certainly never did somthing like this... I
> > don't want to screw THIS one... I'm already downloading RH9 that isn't
> > supposed to have any trouble with the not-mdified kernel... so I think I
> > can screw that one up a few times... also... it's an x86 intel... so
> > LILO works and I can boot to any kernel I want.
>
> Read about aboot.
>
> If you're new at this stuff, you WILL screw it up once or twice before
> you learn it. That doesn't mean that you'll loose any data, of
> course.
I subscribe that. Alpha is _not_ i386, so some things _are_ different.
Please, do some reading (and asking) first, then eventually don't shoot
your foot.
MfG, JBG
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