Do you mount any of the other partitions under any of the installations.
For example, do you mount your debian / when you fire up Mandrake?
If so, then this would indeed cause you no end of grief. What could be
happening is that your System.map compiled for debian kernel (say 2.2.6) is
being used with your mandrake kernel (which might be 2.2.13). The
System.map and the kernel versions have to match. Ensure that NO OTHER
partitions containing other installations are visible to any other
installations.
It's like trying to run Windows with two different registries at the same
time! All sorts of things are going to conflict!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Lane Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23/02/2000 15:38:23
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cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: [newbie] Can Separate Partitions Interfere?
That may not be the best way to phrase the Subject, but my problems with
ppp with both Debian and Mandrake suggest this possibility to me.
On my system I have three Linux installations: Corel, Debian, and
Mandrake. The latter two will not connect me to the Internet, and the
basic complaint is that ppp support is not included in the kernel. I did
not say "no" to anything that looked like it might something to do with
this, and in fact, with my latest Mandrake install, I took the Install
Everything option.
So is it possible that these Linuxes are interfering with each other in
some way? The boot process certainly looks like the three are
independent, and the X interface is unique to each. However, I do see
in the Mandrake boot (dmesg stuff) repeated errors that say
/boot/System.map has incorrect kernel version."
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
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Getting where I want to be with Linux...
