And although this is a litle off-topic for this channel, make sure that you have the correct architecture specified.. most common reason I see for that error.. compiling for a Pentium Pro and running it on something less... On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Marc Mutz wrote: > Pierre PEIFFER wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I'm a newby and I'm trying to test encrypted loobpack file. So I > > have to apply a patch to my kernel. > > <snip> > > > "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel." > > > > But nothing else, my kernel doesn't boot. As far I'm, I've not read > > something about such a problem and have no idea. So, do you see > > something wrong somewhere ? It will be very great if somebody could just > > help me to have a booting kernel.... Thank you very much. > > <snip> > > Is this the first time you compile a custom kernel? > It looks to me that you just added the options for the crypto stuff but > did not go through all the other options that need to be adjusted to fit > your box. The vanilla kernel tarball is not configured by any means. You > have to go through all menus and select what you need. Or copy a working > ..config into the main directory and run make oldconfig. See the > Kernel-HOWTO for more. > > If that is not the case and you successfully compiled kernels before, > then it might be a good idea to tell us the exact commands you used and > actions you did so we have a clue of where things could have gone wrong. > > Marc -- -------------------------------------------------------- Michael Peddemors - Senior Consultant Unix?Administration - WebSite Hosting Network?Services - Programming Wizard?Internet Services http://www.wizard.ca Linux Support Specialist - http://www.linuxmagic.com -------------------------------------------------------- (604)?589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada -------------------------------------------------------- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
