Rodolfo wrote: > Now the old 9.1 partition can start, finally. > However, something is still wrong with it. > In fact every operation, also the log in, is very slow, > and even the mouse is trembling and moving slowly. > > Maybe the problem is kernel related. In fact, when I log in, > the system comes up as 10.1 Community, but with the old 2.4.x kernel > (the one included in Mandrake 9.1). It's a sort of a monstruos (10.1)-(9.1) > mixture. > > Maybe the partition could be healed if I installed the new 2.6.x kernel? > I did: `# urpmi kernel-source-2.6', and the installation was performed: > a new directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk was created, > but now I don't know how to go on.
Mikkel wrote:
> Did you reuse any of the partitions between the 9.1 and 10.1 installs?
Sorry, this question is not clear to me.
Mikkel:
> Installing a 2.6.x kernel in a 9.1 system is not as simple as installing
> the kernel RPM. There are some support RPMs that also need to be
> upgraded, if I remember correctly.
I see. But now, as I said, the old 9.1 system has become 10.1 (I don't know how,
surely because of the mistakes I did when I installed a new 10.1 partition). I
was
thinking that maybe the actual problem is due to this ex-9.1, now 10.1
that's keeping an old 2.4.x kernel though. In other words, the old 9.1 partition
is now a strange mixture between 9.1 and 10.1: a 10.1 with a 9.1 kernel.
Mikkel:
> What you should get when you select the 9.1 entry from the boot menu is
> a second boot menu.
Yes, that's exactly what happens.
Mikkel:
> Also, the root partition should be different between
> the 9.1 and 10.1 instralls. (No root-/dev/hda7 in the 10.1 lilo.conf.)
In fact, in the master partition lilo.conf there is:
root=/dev/hda5
and
other=/dev/hda7
label="linux2"
. I'm attaching the lilo.conf of the master partition (/dev/hda5) and the one
of the `sick' partition (/dev/hda7), in case you, Mikkel, or anyone else
from the list has any other suggestions.
On my hard disk now I have one MS Windows partition and six Linux:
/dev/hd1 is the 20 GB Windows partition;
/dev/hda5 is the `master' linux partition (the one mounted in master boot
record),
with 2.5 GB, Mandrake 9.1;
/dev/hda6 is the the swap linux partition;
/dev/hda7 is the old linux partition, the sick one, with 10 GB. It used
to be Mandrake 9.1,
but now it's `mixed' 9.1 and 10.1;
/dev/hda8 is another linux partition, 2.5 GB, Mandrake 10.1;
/dev/hda9 is another linux partition, 2.5 GB, Mandrake 10.1;
/dev/hda10 is another linux partition, 2.5 GB, Mandrake 10.1.
It's 40 GB altogether.
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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