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"Mark Williamson" <mark@express.bbs.net.au> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a Gravis Ultra Sound card..   tring to get it to work with a Redhat
> Linux ver 4.1..
> 
> Now what I can understand from reading the How to's, I have to recompile
> the kernal.. Going through and trying this..  I havn't had much success.. 
> I seam to come up with a kernel with errors in it..
> 
> Here is the procedure that I used..  May be some one can spot were I went
> wrong and point me in the right direction..
> 
> Logged in as root..    and changed dir to /usr/src/linux2.1 something.. 

There should be a ``linux'' symlink to your current source version of
linux, e.g:
            linux -> linux-2.0.29/

> sorry I forgot the number..  I think thats for the version any way..   once
> into the dir I ran the command "make menuconfig"...   And configured things
> the way that I thought that they should be..   May be this is were I am at
> fault..  
> 
> When finished with  "make menuconfig" I then ran "make dep", "make
> clean"...

You need to follow the README exactly.  
Re-make the symlinks in ``/usr/include'' as per ``/usr/src/linux/README''.

Assuming you are using at least some modules, you also need to:
    make modules
    make modules_install

> After all of that I then proceeded to run "make zImage", this took some
> time to compile...    Once this Had finished I then proceeded to copy the
> "zImage" file as "vmlinuz-new" file to    /boot ...    With all of this
> completed I added another entry to LILO  to be able to boot off
> "vmlinuz-new" having the lable of "new"... 

OK.  I use a name with the version number in it; helps to avoid
confusion if you have more than 2 versions ;-)   e.g. ``zImage-2.0.29''.

> Now I can still boot my old kernel with out problems...  but the new kernel
> will boot...   but with lots of errors...  without the sound card working
> and suffing up the Network card as well..    as booting it come up with a
> message can't find certain modules  etc...
> 
> Can some see were I went wrong..
> 
> thanks    

Let us know how it went.

Cheers,
-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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