Thanks for all your support.

 

Yesterday evening I reconfigured the kernel again, and I added SCSI I think, but I also removed some generic IDE drivers and just kept the VIA driver for ide. Recompiled, and rebooted. And voila, it booted :) I will compare the two .config's to see what I actually did that made it work.

 

But there is a lot of work left before it's complete:

* APCI don't work (powerbutton)

* Framebuffer at startup (like on the install-cd, which looks nice)

* Mouse-support (maybe this comes with the framebuffer, as I can see it detects the mouse)

* Swedish keymap (I didnt get the config correct, but I know how to now)

* X

(Hmm. If I would have choosen Windows instead, I would have been up and running with Cubase in 3 hours max, but I would not have learned so much)

 

A few questions:

- When I recompile the kernel and replace an existingly (in lilo) configured kernel, do I have to rerun lilo ?

- Neil: How have you configured your frambuffer support in lilo/grub ? The handbook is some what confusing in this matter I think ?

- How much do I earn in speed by optimising and removing unneeded options in the kernel ? Or is it just kernel-size ?