error when booting debian 3.1

[Nufan]

Hi all. just installed debian 3.1 week ago and now i recompiled kernel
and bump into problems.

got kernel compiled and copied to /boot

then started setting up LILO and realised that this uses bootloader called grub. ok. read somewhere that you should run update-grub

run that booted linux. found my new kernel on grub startup list chose that and then it freezed in error saying No setup signature found.

have i forgotten something?

[TruthSeeker]

Well if you're trying to install the new kernel manually like that, there's probably a bunch of stuff you have to set up. But in Debian it's a lot easier. Instead of running "make" to compile the kernel, run "make-kpkg kernel-image" (from the top kernel source directory of course). This will compile it right into a deb package in the /usr/src directory called something like kernel-image-2.6.13.2_10.00.Custom_i386.deb. Then just run "dpkg -i <kernel package name>" and dpkg will take care of everything. Note that since you've already compiled it, make-kpkg should just take a few seconds rather than a few hours.

[Nufan]

HUH.. now i'm totally lost.. could you be more detailed on commands
because i'm really stuck with this....

[Nufan]

ok. got the kernel booting. i had copied wrong file to /boot
i copied zImage and i should have copied bzImage.

but now i have small problems. can i recompile kernel again
with same style as before or do i have to delete some files and then do the make stuff again?

[chopin1810]

You should just be able to do it again.