-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 6:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] smp kernel 2.2.13-7mdk and modules
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
| Hi, Gary,
|
| Yes, I do have a dual Pentium II machine. smp was working fine when I
| was running mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9. I think much of my difficulties
| here are due to my unfamiliarity with recompiling kernels from rpms. I
| had always compiled kernels from tar.gz. On the mandrake 6.1
| installation cd, there are several kernel rpms, like kernel,
| kernel-source, kernel-headers, etc. Which of these packages are needed
| for compiling an smp kernel? From the mandrake web site documentation,
| it seems like kernel-source and kernel-headers are all that you need.
| But then what about kernel-smp and kernel-smp-fb? I tried recompiling
FYI - the kernel-smp and the kernel-smp-fb are installable kernels which
have
been compiled for you. You install the rpm, then edit /etc/lilo.conf, then
run
/sbin/lilo to write the boot loader to the HD. If you need better
documentation on lilo, it has been covered in great detail and should be
available in the archives.
HTH,
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
| an smp kernel with all of these packages installed, and still no
success
| getting a bootable smp 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. For all of the people at
| mandrakesoft, is there a tar.gz of 2.2.13-7mdk? Right now, a tar.gz of
| the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel source is more to be desired than gold by me.
| Thanks,
|
|
|
| Hidong
|
|
| Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote:
| >
| > Do you have a multi-processor motherboard?
| > The smp kernel is for mult-processor systems. "Thanks M Thompson at
Hot Mail"
| >
| > I had a problem with installing a driver for my sound card, I know
this is
| > completely different to your problem, because my linux box was using
the smp
| > kernel.
| >
| > After I did away with that and used the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel I did not
have a
| > problem.
| >
| > Later,
| >
| > Gary
| >
| > Warren Doney wrote:
| >
| > > Hidong Kim wrote:
| > > >
| > > > Hi, Axalon,
| > > >
| > > > I tried the 'depmod -a', but the 2.2.13-7mdk smp kernel is still
hanging
| > > > during boot at "Finding module dependencies". Should it be
'depmod -a
| > > > 2.2.13-7mdk' or 'depmod -a 2.2.13'? Thanks,
| > > >
| > >
| > > move your old modules from (top level) /lib/modules to a new folder
| > > /lib/oldmodules (I just used KFM)
| > > or whatever before you make modules-->lnstall-->depmod etc. Before
you
| > > reboot, put a working version of older kernel moudules in
/lib/modules
| > > so you can boot with an older kernel if anything goes wrong. I.E. I
made
| > > sure I had a bootdisk+modules for 2.2.13-7 before I rebooted my
newly
| > > compiled 2.2.13-22. I don't think it would work with 2 lots of the
same
| > > version e.g. 13-22 + 13-22 (havent tried it though). For me, depmod
| > > still
| > > spits out unresolved stuff, but I can boot o.k. off my new
kernel.....
| > > I think I hosed out some suff from the src tree when I did a make
| > > mrproper or a make clean somewhere, Wish I'd moved the RPM from
/tmp....
| > >
| > > Warren.
