RE: Gentoo way of installing new kernel

i also had this problem. I compiled at least 5 different kernels being
extremely careful as to what was selected. I had two different errors, the
first was described by Pontus, the second was a streaming screen of 40 40
40, completely filling the screen....

I too am at a loss. 




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Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM
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Subject: [gentoo-newbies] Gentoo way of installing new kernel


Hi,

I have not had muck luck with Gentoo yet, I installed a new system and used
vanilla-sources, forgot the devfs and recompiled, got complaints about
skewed clock, so I then did an emerge unmerge sys-kernel/vanilla-sources,
and removed traces from /usr/src/. When having recompiled the new kernel the
last time, I mounted /boot, copied bzImage there, umounted and rebooted.

I know get the ugly message:

boot:
Loading Gentoo....................................
Uncompressing Linux...

invalid compressed format (err=1)

 -- System halted

I have compiled my own kernels a thousand times on other Linux distros, but
this one seem to differ from what I'm used to. I would really appriciate if
someone would tell me what I'm missing. I got another similar message
yesterday (same stage, after recompiling) but then it said something about
no datastream... *confused here*

Please help...

Pontus

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