RE: kernel upgrade doesn't work

[Bernd Prager]

It's RedHat 7.2

> -----Original Message-----
> ...
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I disagree most strongly. I have here, a Pentium 100Mhz based system,
> running Linux, Slackware Pre-8.0 in fact. And each time I 
> make up a new
> kernel, with "make && make install", that series of steps copies that
> one to the boot locations. In fact each time the system 
> recommends using
> one of what you suggested, but I go ahead anyway, and use those series
> of steps. So, something else is wrong with his setup. Which 
> distribution
> is it?
> ...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> ...
> 
> > ---- snip -----------
> > Boot 'Red Hat Linux-new (2.4.18)'
> > root (hd0,0)
> >   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/hda6
> > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
> > ---- snip -----------
> 
> How did you install the newly-constructed kernel? You should be copying
> arch/i386/boot/zImage or arch/i386/boot/bzImage (depending on whether
> you made a zImage or bzImage). Don't try to copy and use the 'vmlinux'
> file that's in the main kernel source directory after the build - x86
> systems can't be booted with that image (some other systems, like
> PowerPC, will use that uncompressed image file, but x86 is NOT one of
> those).