From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:28:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:28:07 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:17353 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:27:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:27:55 +0200 Message-Id: <200108012327.f71NRti27028@ns.caldera.de> From: Christoph Hellwig To: kiwiunixman@yahoo.co.nz (Matthew Gardiner) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Caldera Special Start Up Screen X-Newsgroups: caldera.lists.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <20010801.23102700@kiwiunixman.ihug.co.nz> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.2 (i686)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20010801.23102700@kiwiunixman.ihug.co.nz> you wrote: > I was able to get the initrd working, however, how do you get the special > graphical loader to work with the custom kernel? I am running linux > 2.4.7ac3 w/ ReiserFS. Hopefully, once that is out of the way, I will > start offering kernel upgrades via my personal website. Apply the following patches from your COL source RPM to the kernel tree: o linux-silent-COL.patch o linux-vgaplan4-COL.patch They are fairly version independand and should work with all 2.4 kernels. Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.