Help me installing this kernel ( for the proffesionals )

[feras_elngar]

Hello everyone ,

i simply need an pro. of kernel .. as i am a windows user i almost don't know any thing about kernels

we have a machine that controled with SBC and touchscreen and special kernel linux on Diskonchip


i have got a copy
of diskonchip contents and this is apic of them


http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/418/31041077mx8.jpg

this kernel was on this board PCM-4525 :

http://www.ucs.co.uk/index.php?pid=1445
ftp://ftp.emacinc.com/pcm4825.pdf

with atouch screen support and no mouse

tha problem is :

those board and the Diskonchip is now obsolete
and i want to put this kernel on new board on a compactflash and enable the mouse driver and vga driver for the new board ????

i will apload the folder contents that showed in the above pic
to the one how will help me in all this mission

i may pay to the one who help me
( as this control is very important to me )

please PM me or contact me on
removed as wanted

waiting for the Proffesionals of the kernel :)

[mrrangerman43]

Have you taken a look Here (http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Compiling_Kernels) Also do a search in www.google.com/linux.

[chenry3]

I'm not 100% sure I understand everything that is happening - so correct me if I'm wrong...

If you want to copy the entire contents of of the old file system to your compact flash, make it bootable, then boot it on your new board - you can easily copy the contents over, and install grub to make it bootable off the original kernel by using a bootable linux cd. I would check the Gentoo Install documentation - they do a great job of explaining this... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10

However I'm guessing that the kernel on your embedded device is a special scaled down kernel that only includes the drivers for that board.

Booting this kernel on a different set of hardware will most likely not work. Unless your new board has the same hardware as the old board....

You can however compile your own custom vanilla kernel with all the drivers needed for your new board. The newest vanilla linux kernel can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.4.tar.gz

From here you would need to unpack it (tar -zxsf linux-2.6.24.4.tar.gz) then configure it (cd linux-2.6.24.4;make menuconfig). After you've configured the kernel (including your mouse + vga drivers) you can compile it (make modules bzImage) then you can copy your new kernel to your old 'diskonchip' file system (cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /path/to/chipondisk/file/system/boot #assuming your cpu is x86 based) along with your modules and System map.

From here you can do the same as above - make the compact flash disk bootable to the new kernel via grab....

Hopefully I understood you right and this helps....