[techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

[Julia Coolman]

Oh, what's a girl to do?

After reading the kernel-HOWTO, I downloaded a 2.4.4 tarball, untarring it
into /usr/src. Following the instructions in the HOWTO, I 'make
xconfig'ed, 'make dep'ed, and 'make bzdisk'ed. At that point I booted
succesfully from that floppy and unamed to verify I was running 2.4.4
succesfully. 

Rebooting using the 2.2.17 that I originally had, and again following the
HOWTO, I 'make bzImage'd, replaced /vmlinuz (which appears to have been a
symlink to something in /boot) with /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage0
and ran lilo, then tried to reboot.
Currently at boot, after the hardware does its thing, "LIL-" appears, then
nothing happens. 

I would like to munge things so I can boot from my old 2.2.17 kernel OR my
2.4.4 kernel (which, since the boot disk worked, I am guessing I put in
place wrong?), AND learn how to do it right next time.  Ugh. Help the
newbie? Please? 

Julia Coolman

jcoolman at gladstone.uoregon.edu

"When the revolution comes, we're going to need a very big wall."