Re: GCC for kernel compilation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >#!/bin/bash ... ># Make it so make-kpkg patches the source >PATCH_THE_KERNEL="YES" The variable PATCH_THE_KERNEL is not used later in the script. Since there is no "export", it's not put into the environment (unless there's a bash option for that and you

Yet another HDIO_SET_DMA failed problem

hdparm -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted I went to Google and did some searching, finding what looks like a fair amount of false information, like the person who said that you just can't do it with a 2.4.21 kernel. Several people suggested a command that I fo

2.4.21 kernel boot problems

I've been trying to upgrade from 2.4.18 to 2.4.21 for several days. I used the kernel-source package for the latest 2.4.21 kernel (-3, I think). I finally went thru all the screens in "menu xconfig" -- I was astonished, by the way, at the things that were "n" by default rather than "m". I includ