[Tfug] No luck with kernel recompiling.

[Chris Hilton]

> Thanks to everyone who offered advice about my kernel compiling woes. I
>  have tried the manual procedure using "make", as suggested by some
> posters, as well as letting Debian's make-kpkg handle the process. Both
>  procedures have *not* resulted in a new bootable kernel. The new
> kernel  inevitably doesn't load the parts of my kernel which probe for
> my 3Com  cards, parallel ports, plug-n-pray cards, or AGP card. I've
> issued  depmod -a after rebooting, and rebooted again. I should
> emphasis that I  have definitely issued the "make modules
> modules_install" command when I  recompiled manually, and I've also
> issued the "make-kpkg modules_image"  command when I've used make-kpkg.
> I even downloaded a new kernel source  package and recreated a new
> .config file, but it has all been for naught.
>
> Does anyone who fancies himself or herself a kernel expert care to take
>  a crack at this machine at a BYOB meeting? Is there one coming up on
> July 28, or is the next one on August 11, like the web site says? I
> will  have the kernel source and a .configure file available for your
> compiling enjoyment.
>
> Scott Denlinger

Scott-

Did you install your new kernel in /boot and update lilo?

-C-