On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > Well, I alomost have a perfect Debian 1.2 system on my Thinkpad 365XD... > > Now I am down to only two problems - both of them I have seen mentioned here, > but I do not remember if I have seen the solutions. > > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing > in /var/log/messages' Is there a way to get syslogd to work correctly?
It is probably of interest to see what that last message was. I is most likely that process that is overloading syslogd. > > The other problem relates to loadlin. After installing Debian 1.2 with the > kernel sources (and compiling a kernel), I cannot get loadlin to successfully > boot into linux. When loadlin starts, I get the 'Loading......' and then > I quickly get screens and screens of thing like '[sdfq2134345]'. This same > kernel works fine when booting from the floppy. What am I doing wrong? > You need a newer version of loadlin. 1.6 is available in the "misc" section of the 1.2 distribution and will load your kernel for you. Luck, Dwarf ------------ -------------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask -------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]