please help me out here

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187296


thank you

CHeck if your new kernel is in /boot

Then tell us which bootloader you use: grub or lilo

I have no idea how much experience you have with Linux, but...

Did you install the 2.6.5 kernel? The guide at http://h00045ad2a5c0.ne.client2.attbi.com/jaydolan/igp.html mentions the make menuconfig, but it doesn't mention any other part of the installation. Once you've saved and exited the config, type make && make modules_install. Once all that stuff is finished, type cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.x then cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.x and THEN cp .config /boot/config-2.6.x (replace all the x's with whatever the last digit of the kernel is - in this case, it would be 5).

Then you need to edit your boot loader config file (in my case, /etc/lilo.conf) and (if it's LILO) change the line that says image=/boot/vmlinuz* to image=/boot/kernel-2.6.x. Save and exit the config file. Then you need to update the boot loader itself with a /sbin/lilo. Then you can restart and you'll hopefully find yourself booting into a 2.6.x kernel!

Sorry, but I have no idea how to edit the GRUB boot loader, as I never use it . If YOU use GRUB, just ask and somebody else can probably tell you.

*Can't remember what the default kernel is called, but vmlinuz sounds right, but it might be called something else.

Hope that helps!

ahhh please help I did the above it wored no errors and I restarted and while loading stuff (before prompt) I get a

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

hopefully this doesnt require ahrdware swapping as this is on a laptop and thats a tad hard....


please help me

I don't mind formatting but there are some files I need cold I just make a nother partition install slackware on it then mount my other install get the files burn them to cd the format?