On Oct 24, 1996 at 07:41, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:

 db>> I don't think *anyone's* default kernel has HPFS built-in;  the boot
 db>> image...
 PE> They did last time I installed (from a 2-year-old CDROM).

Sounds rather unusual, but anyway...

 db>> Assuming you hadn't run "make clean" or something in
the interim.
 PE> I didn't.

Well, *something* was wrong (perhaps there were some errors during the
compile that you missed), because I've never had that problem compiling
numerous kernels (most recently, 2.0.24).

 PE> I would have created those files and put something in them, only I
 PE> didn't actually ask for anything to be modulized!

Some may be set as modules by default, unless you change them.

 PE> vmlinux's in the compressed directory, etc etc and so you have to guess

Those are the kernel images prior to being compressed.

 PE> which one you really need.

You want "zImage" - that's why you typed "make zImage"
at the start.

 PE> found the solution was to copy "zImage" to
"vmlinuz" and then run "lilo".

Assuming the new kernel works, yes.

 PE> Ah, but I now have it compiled.  And even have an emulated boot-floppy.
 PE> Which is BLOODY SLOW!

Wadda ya expect for software emulation of a hardware device?!

 PE> What I need now (I think) is an emulated dos-disk...

Why?  Why not just use the FAT/MSDOS file system support in the kernel and
use the real thing?

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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