Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-23 Thread Richard Sharman
Douglas Bates writes:
 > 
 > It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development
 > versions.  I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while.
 > 

2.1.29 seems pretty stable.  From what I gather, for later ones you
are better off not using modules and then I think you're safe.


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Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
"Brian N. Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled.  Some of the modules, 
> such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols 
> that prevent my aic7xxx from loading.
> 
> --Brian.
> 
> 
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x?
> > I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert.
> > But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols
> > on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support.
> > 
> > I just ftpd the whole 2.1.35 source and the new modutils 2.1.34
> > and will see how it goes, I have been patching up.
> > 
> > Anyone else having this? Nobody in the linux.dev.kernel group
> > (or the mailing list) seem to have mentioned it.
> > 
> > Hamish

I just compiled a fresh 2.1.35 kernel for my home machine (IDE-based).
When I try to boot this kernel, either from the IDE disk or from a
floppy disk, I get the messages about uncompressing the kernel, then
"now booting the kernel", then nothing.  Well, actually not nothing.
There is a whole lot of disk activity on the IDE disk at this point,
even when booting off the floppy.  When I eventually halt this and
reboot an old kernel, it has to fsck my disk partitions because they
look dirty.

So I don't even get as far as finding out that there are missing symbols.

We were able to compile and boot a 2.1.35 kernel for my office machine
but that has / on a SCSI disk.  We do have an old IDE drive in there
as well and this morning the driver for that got jammed to the point
that we had to reboot.

It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development
versions.  I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while.

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Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-23 Thread Brian N. Borg
I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled.  Some of the modules, 
such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols 
that prevent my aic7xxx from loading.

--Brian.


Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x?
> I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert.
> But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols
> on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support.
> 
> I just ftpd the whole 2.1.35 source and the new modutils 2.1.34
> and will see how it goes, I have been patching up.
> 
> Anyone else having this? Nobody in the linux.dev.kernel group
> (or the mailing list) seem to have mentioned it.
> 
> Hamish
> --
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> Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT.
> http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [  ] 42%


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Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-22 Thread J . R . Goncalves
> Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x?
> I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert.
> But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols
> on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support.
> 

The same is true here. I can run 2.1.29 but not 2.1.30-35. I receive
the messages you describe above.

> I just ftpd the whole 2.1.35 source and the new modutils 2.1.34
> and will see how it goes, I have been patching up.

Already done this without any luck.

If you have a better luck, let me know what you have done.

Thanks.

Ramos.

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University of Reading, Reading, England, U.K.  
Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 * http://www.debian.org



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