Hi Greg,
-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Gregory Avedissian Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:52 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] kernel questions
I'm trying to get oss sound modules compiled into kernel. make xconfig was easy enough to get through. instructions say to then make dep and make bzImage or bzlilo. 1. I get errors on this, because I'm above cylinder 1023 on my dual-boot drive. I boot linux from floppy with lilo. Error message suggests using lba32 option, but it doesn't say where or how to use it. How do I get around this?
The best option would be to shrink your primary partition by a few MB, leaving room to create a small primary partition for the Linux /boot partiition. You can easily do this with Partition Magic. ---------------------- Primary | ext2 | /boot ---------------------- Primary | FAT or NTFS or ??? ---------------------- Extended| swap ---------------------- Extended| ext2 or ext3 | / ---------------------- other partitions as desired...
2. Instructions say next to install the kernel. Is that done by typing make install? In addition to the make install that comes after make modules? (see below)
No, you need to copy the arch/i386/boot/bzImage --> /boot/<some unique name> and then add an entry to /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you are using lilo, you then need to install the new boot sector by typing lilo.
3. I haven't been able to create a lilo boot disk for awhile. I'm using Yast2 to configure boot mode, and it keeps telling me that my floppy is write protected and it can't access the boot sector. I've tried this with new floppies that have been formated with fdformat /dev/fd0.
You shouldn't need to format it first, and the disk should not be mounted. Refer to help on www.tldp.org on how to make a boot disk.
Thanks for any insight.
Here are the instructions I'm looking at:
1. To make the kernel sound modules, cd to your /usr/src/linux directory (typically) and type make config, make menuconfig, or make xconfig (to start the command line, dialog, or x-based configuration tool).
2. Select the Sound option and a dialog will be displayed.
3. Select M (module) for "Sound card support".
4. Select your sound driver(s) as a module. For ProAudio, Sound Blaster, etc., select M (module) for OSS sound modules. [thanks to Marvin Stodolsky <stodolsk@erols.com>]A
5. Make the kernel (e.g., make dep ; make bzImage), and install the kernel.
6. Make the modules and install them (make modules; make modules_install).
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