[LUNI] Kernel panic after installing self built 2.4.26

[Joe Frost]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:11:04AM -0500, me at heyjay.com wrote:
> > existing kernel you had.  This is just a confidence builder.  You'll
> > want to go through the make menuconfig again and carefully examine each
> > option.
> 
> In my case it takes 136 minutes.  Do you go thru menuconfig and then compile
> again, or just to see what the settings were, that you compiled with?

136 minutes seems like you're building a ton of stuff you don't need.
I just recompiled on my k6200 and it took 34 minutes.  

I'd recommend starting with the base and removing options as you see.
Many are blatantly not for your hardware, others are borderline.  Err on
the side of caution.  lspci is definitely your friend trying to glean
all hardware info.

Taking the default kernel works, but you have a bunch of stuff in there
that you don't need.  (probably not because they're all modules)
Getting a lean mean kernel will definitely cut down on your compile
times.

So lilo doesn't show a Linux-Old?

for chroot he means run the chroot command, it changes / to whatever you
tell it to.  So instead of / being on the cd, you can point it to the
disk.

first mount your hard disk (/dev/hda? I think you said) to some place say
/mnt

   mount /dev/hda? /mnt

If you have more than one partition I'd mount those as well

   mount /dev/hda? /mnt/boot

Then run

   chroot /mnt

I'm not 100% sure on that last one as I haven't run the command before.
but that's a good place to start