[ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel

[James P. Kinney III]

Better check the kernel version on any books. The last one I saw was for
2.2.x. A LOT has changed since then. 

Best source of info on kernel option is in the docs directory in the
source tree. It's pretty much required reading for lots of parts.

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:08, BruceG wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 18:01, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > The bootsplash give that pretty screen without the ugly list of stuff
> > being started up. It's eyecandy.
> >
> > All you may need to do is makemenuconfig again and compile in reiserfs
> > instead of having it as a module. If it is a module, the kernel must
> > load it to access the hard drive. Since the modules are _on_ the hard
> > drive it is required to to use a fake hard drive, thus initrd (initial
> > root device). My take is that unless things are really weird, anything I
> > need to get the box to run and find the hard drive, I'm going to always
> > be using anyway.
> >
> Sounds good. I don't need the eyecandy on boot up, but wondered where it went 
> when I tried building and loading kernels. As far as hard drive support - I 
> BETTER have compiled in reiserfs this time. 
> 
> I saw a book on the Linux kernel at Borders the other day. Think it's an 
> O'Reilly book. Is it a good one? I'd like to know a little more about what 
> the options are I'm guessing at by names and pressing the h (help) button.
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