On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:58:14 -0400 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2003 18:57 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: > > On Saturday 19 July 2003 01:03 am, Net Llama! wrote: > > > On 07/19/03 11:22, Keith Antoine wrote: > > > > On Friday 18 July 2003 07:17 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > > > >>These are for RH9 & Rawhide: > > > >><http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/> > > > >> > > > >>I've not tested them, but plan to. > > > > > > > > Wonder whether they will work on mandrakeor have they forked too > > > > much. > > > > > > They'd prolly work in so much as you can boot with them, but > > > whether they work well is another story. You've got little to > > > loose by trying though, as long as you keep a known good kernel. > > > But, Keith, you alreay knew that part, you taught it to me a few > > > years ago :) > > > > I am trying to remember with rpm and kernels whether it overwrites > > the old or just installs the new one seperately. actually I am still > > tossing up about doing my own compile as I still do not trust rpm's. > > I compiled my own 2.6 kernel from kernel.org and had a lot of compile > errors. Finally got the options right where it would compile. > > But when I booted... one new 'feechur' seems to be that the running > messages of all the things it is doing during boot no longer is > standard.. it just said it was booting and that was that. It > finally hung somewhere in the process and I haven't taken the time to > figure out how to get to the dmesg (or whatever) list of messages.... > to see what it had a problem with. > The most likely "feechur" is the £$%! decision in 2.6 to make VGA_CONSOLE, etc., off by default. Your boot will complete, but your have no way of knowing it. Auf gut Deutsch heisst das: beschissen! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
