RE: Gentoo way of installing new kernel

Are you sure the march compiler flag isn't set for the wrong architecture?


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Stuart Herd - IT Dept. wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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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