On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote: Hi Buddy, I am still a newcomer myself--but I can handle dmesg, I ran across it in the Ethernet.HOWTO. What dmesg is, is all of that stuff jabbers when we bring up linux, the stuff we normally insert/enter (grin). Jim Wantz WB0TFK > What...I'm still learning--what, is dmesg a command to run that I redirect > to a text file? > > Actually, I think I must've been doing something else when I told you I > tried a custom kernel with nearly all the IDE controllers in it. I did > make config > make bzImage > and then cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/bvmlinux /floppy/linux > Then > cd /floppy > rdev linux /dev/fd0 > > It didn't boot at all, so I re-made the root disk from the disk I got from > you. So I don't know if there were more or fewer. (BTW, I did the kernel > compile on the machine that works.) > > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV > Email: davros at ycardz.com > Voice mail: 877-791-5298 > All opinions are all mine! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >