On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:18:01PM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Erik van Konijnenburg wrote on Dec, 12: > > http://arch.debian.org/arch/yaird/[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]/yaird/yaird--devo/yaird--devo--0.1/patch-131/ > > Could you give it a try and let me know if it actually works? > > Apologies for the more than basic question: how do I apply the patch ?
None needed, my description was rather cryptic ... Step by step: ** Decide if you want to go ahead with this test. Only try this if you know how to recover from a non-booting kernel (& if I'm correct you've just done that) ** Save the attached patch. ** Make backup: $ cp /usr/lib/yaird/perl/Hardware.pm just-in-case.pm ** Apply patch: $ sudo patch /usr/lib/yaird/perl/Hardware.pm < /dat/tmp/Hardware.pm.patch patching file /usr/lib/yaird/perl/Hardware.pm Hunk #1 succeeded at 216 (offset -18 lines). $ (the offset is a normal warning in this case) ** Comment out any work-arounds (MODULE ide-generic) you may have made in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg This is an important bit: you would not want to report success with the patch if actually your edit in Default.cfg is what makes the system boot. ** Use the patched version to make a new initrd.img. A quick way to do this is $ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp but only if you don't actually have an SMP system. This should leave your normal single-cpu kernel in place and install an smp kernel, with new initrd.img, next to it. ** reboot into new kernel; report success; undo if you don't like the effect. Regards, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]