I was under the impression I needed the 3 files to boot the kernel ( Did
I mention this was my fist compiling? ;) Thanks to everyone for the
wonderful support :)  I'm on the way to rid the world of another M$
machine! 

Thanks,
Aaron



On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 20:12, Kenny Grimm wrote:
> I don't think you hosed up on anything, you just need to rename that
> vmlinux-2.4.19 to vmlinuz-2.4.19 as it is the bzImage (compressed
> kernel).  vmlinux is the name for an uncompressed kernel.  As for
> initrd, that is typically only necessary if you have a SCSI controller. 
> If you don't most likely you can just remove that line from your
> lilo.conf.
> -Kenny
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:44, Aaron Clark wrote:
> > I'm having some slight issues with booting to my newly compiled 2.4.19
> > kernel. I was following the the documentation at
> > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Compiling_Kernels/20_Steps_to_a_New_Kernel_with_Grub.html. In the doc it says to copy over the bzImage as vmlinux-2.4.19, so I did.When I added the new entry into grub.conf I noticed that I didn't have a vmlinuz-<version> and initrd-<version> in /boot. These must be necessary as I can't boot to 2.4.19.
> > 
> > What did I hose-up on? 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
> > ----
> 
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