Build 2.6.12 on FC4?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:35 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> My wireless worked on FC3, but stopped working on FC4.  I want to try a
> stock 2.6.12 kernel.  It doesn't compile the current FC4 gcc.  I grabbed
> the patch linux-2.6.11-compile-fixes.patch, and it compiles.  But after
> make, make modules; make modules_install; make install; it doesn't boot. 
> Just says can't open console (/dev/console IIRC).

I suspect you forgot to make an initrd...

from the kernel source tree it's easiest to just use "make install",
that will make an initrd for you as well as adding the kernel to grub
etc etc
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