Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-20 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: Another possibility is bug 142916. This resulted in one of my machines becoming non-bootable. Interesting. I complained loudly about a similar problem ages ago, when I installed a broken version of libc6 without ldconfig, and it

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:21, Brian May wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: Another possibility is bug 142916. This resulted in one of my machines becoming non-bootable. Interesting. I complained loudly about a similar problem ages ago, when I installed a

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Martijn van [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:50:42 +1000: The solution to this is to stuff all your own aliases under something like /etc/modules/mine or something like that. Then they will never been overwritten (except if a package named mine decides it needs some modules :)

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 19.04.02 um 00:51:24 schrieb Josip Rodin: The old kernel was handcrafted. he chose to trash all that and instead follow some random newbie instructions? :) Well, there was a time when I compiled all my kernels myself, but then one day I got intrigued by our high-quality

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 18.04.02 um 16:21:55 schrieb Bob Nielsen: a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosing 386, 486, and 586 kernels work fine on a K6. When in doubt use a 386 kernel, it'll run on any

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 19/04/2002 à 09:57, Michael Piefel a écrit : He just went for the best: 686. It seems that one doesn't work on k6 anymore. That one wasn't ever meant for k6, which is not a 686 cpu. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Michael Piefel wrote on Thu Apr 18, 2002 um 03:32:59PM: The Crash Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Disk The old kernel was handcrafted. The new one makes an initial RAM disk and loads the modules mentioned in /etc/modules. Of course, the disk driver had been compiled in before. I'm not sure what to do about this. kernel-image _could_ have warned

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:47, Herbert Xu wrote: Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Disk The old kernel was handcrafted. The new one makes an initial RAM disk and loads the modules mentioned in /etc/modules. Of course, the disk driver had been compiled in before. I'm not sure what to

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 13:31]: Did the initrd load at all? If it did then it could be a bug in initrd-tools. Please show me the boot messages. an other reason for failiour was that the space in the /boot partion was used up. I made my boot partition just big enough for a

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:40, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 13:31]: Did the initrd load at all? If it did then it could be a bug in initrd-tools. Please show me the boot messages. an other reason for failiour was that the space in the /boot partion was

Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Piefel
A friend of mine who's quite well-versed in handling Linux, but not so experienced with Debian, tried to upgrade his old Potato system to Woody. It went quite well as he adhered to the instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading Unfortunately, though, the

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: The Crash Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosing 386, 486, and 586

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: The guide recommends to install a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} The old kernel was handcrafted. Okay, so this person had a nice tailored kernel done, and instead of simply upgrading the

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: The Crash Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} However, the system

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: No Net The appropriate alias for eth0 was missing. This is a case of getting tired with all those config file was changed by you or a script messages when very often you are sure that you didn't touch it. In this case, a split