Re: Can anyone help me out here?

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 18, 12:09am, Tim Rainier wrote:
> Subject: Can anyone help me out here?
> Okay, can anyone help me out here?
> I want to know if it is necessary to recompile the kernel or the lilo.conf
> file. How do I activate the changed settings?  Also Linux won't support my
> cdrom because it says that my kernel didn't support iso9660.  I am using the
> kernel that came with the Linux Redhat 5.1 BSware CD-Rom, can anyone explain
> why it doesn't recognize it?
>
> Thanks,
>
Seems strange,  I've used the BS-Ware CD and not seen that problem.  Maybe
there is a bad module or entry in conf.modules.  But compiling the kernel
(making a nice static kernel) would probably fix it.

If you have the kernel source and a compiler installed you can rebuild the
kernel as follows:

cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig (if you have x windows running, otherwise user make menuconfig)
Select the options you want need
make dep
make clean
make zImage
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/zImage
Edit /etc/lilo.cong to make an entry that points to your new kernel
(leave your old kernel there too just in case)
run lilo
reboot

On a decent machine this really doesn't take all that long (i.e. hopefully more
that I do)  you can try doeing a modprobe iso9660 and a lsmod to try and get
the module to load (in case there is a problem with kerneld) before you try
this.  But I'm all for rolling your own non-modular kernel anyway.