Re: [newbie] kernel configuration

2002-10-12 Thread Todd Flinders
You're not in the correct directory. You need to be in the directory that holds the Makefile. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:38 am, Noah Hicks wrote: This must be a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Is it not true that to

Re: [newbie] kernel configuration

2002-10-12 Thread Noah Hicks
Thanks a lot. That clears things up. On more question if anyone cares do discuss. I see that there are two similar sub dir: [rootlocalhost src]# ls linux linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ RPM/ Both /linux and /linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ seem to have the same substructure. Is the linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ dir a mandrake

Re: [newbie] kernel configuration

2002-10-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:44:40 -0500 Noah Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. That clears things up. On more question if anyone cares do discuss. I see that there are two similar sub dir: [root@localhost src]# ls linux@ linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ RPM/ Both /linux and /linux-2.4.19-5mdk/

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-10-04 Thread ravi r
Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros

Re: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-09-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday September 27 2002 01:15 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi, To fine tune the kernel from i586 to athlon. is it just take the source of the currente kernel (mdk) and select athlon (menuconfig) and proceed with the regular make's ? For testing only, this is the

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-24 Thread gerCO
: Lunes, 23 de Septiembre de 2002 05:06 p.m. Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-23 Thread et
do you have shared video memory with an onboard video card? if so you will need to hit f1 instead of enter when first prompted to hit enter to install or upgrade. you will then need to tell the installer how much memory it can use without effecting the video memory, like this (without the

RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic on boot from Install CD on Athlon

2002-09-23 Thread Cory
Also, what video card is being used? What happens when you attempt an install in text mode? It would seem that if the problem continues across multiple distros, then hardware would be the first place I would start looking. Try a different video card. Also, you may want to look into the

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic Errors

2002-09-19 Thread Derek Jennings
Does your motherboard use shared video memory? If so this link may help http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=3994highlight=unable+mount+root derek On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 5:12 am, Robert W. Dempsey wrote: Hello - I am unable to resolve this issue and time is of the essence!

Re: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Is there a kernel compiled for i686 in the MDK9? I heard that RH includes 3 kernel compiles in his distro: i486 (useless for MDK), i686 and athlon. I think a good idea would be to ship 3 kernels and let only the expert user choose (during install): i586, i686,

Re: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday September 6 2002 06:19 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Is there a kernel compiled for i686 in the MDK9? No, but it's very easy to compile one. Just edit the section of /usr/src/linux/.config and comment out the arch you don't want (eg, 586) and enable the one you do (eg, k7). #

Re: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-07 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 15.49 07/09/2002, you wrote: On Friday September 6 2002 06:19 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Is there a kernel compiled for i686 in the MDK9? No, but it's very easy to compile one. Just edit the section of /usr/src/linux/.config and comment out the arch you don't want (eg, 586) and enable

RE: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-07 Thread Franki
I agree strongly, particularly for the AMD kernel... someone should do some real testing with the latest GCC and create a real AMD optimised kernel... since I use amd's whenever the chance allows me. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [newbie] kernel source (newbie question)

2002-08-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 11 August 2002 10:19 pm, you wrote: Do the installation CD's for Mandrake 8.2 have the kernel source on them? I need to install a driver for my wireless pc card on my laptop. It want to know where the linux source tree is located. I don't think I need to recompile my kernel at this

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
N E N I S T E R wrote: Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen

Re: [newbie] kernel config file

2002-07-14 Thread ai4a
chuck wrote: Is there a kernel config file that can be loaded in xconfig that matches the default binary kernel? Yes. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig or the easy way. Remove any .config file. execute 'make menuconfig' and this will use the above file. HTH Charles Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand

2002-07-02 Thread mike
I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it permanent I got the following responses: ( hope it sheds some light ) Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand -SOLVED

2002-07-02 Thread Warren Post
Loading the module in /etc/modules fixes the problem. Thanks for the good idea. Warren On lun, 2002-07-01 at 20:00, mike wrote: I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-25 Thread et
do you have a mem=184 as part of the append statement in your lilo.conf (assuming you are booting w/lilo)? On Monday 24 June 2002 10:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-25 Thread Pastor-KC1DI
Ben, try the following (I'm Assuming your trying to load Mandrake 8.2) when the splash screen comes up hit F1 then at the boot prompt type in linux mem=xxxM without the quotes and replace xxx with the amount of ram memory not shared with video. See if that won't get the install started. hope

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread ben harker
im using Mandrake 8.0 On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:49:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? well mine came with 2.4.18-6mdk, but i

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? In a shell enter $ uname -r this will print out the kernal version -- Gerald Waugh

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? Thanks No it comes with 2.4.18 which finally offers a good virtual memory manager unlike its predecessors. It installs by default

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread mycal62
civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? Thanks No it comes with 2.4.18 which finally offers a good virtual memory manager unlike its predecessors. It

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Xecut1on
The modem driver im installing says i need 2.4.0 and it wont install with any other kernels or at least not 2.4.18-6mdk =\

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Robin
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem driver im installing says i need 2.4.0 and it wont install with any other kernels or at least not 2.4.18-6mdk =\ This is probably related to the problem I had with X freezing whenever I did something online. Install an earlier

Re: [newbie] kernel panic - why?

2002-04-28 Thread Brian Parish
Sounds like you have disk problems again. Try booting from the install CD, press F1 and type RESCUE. It will allow you to mount your files systems under /mnt. First question then is: can you mount them? If so, try fsck. That should at least give you more data to come back to the list. HTH

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 April 2002 2:09 pm, Hong Sun wrote: Hi, All: I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and the screen was

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread Hanan Shargi
I had the same problem with Mandrake 8.2 after install went all smooth, I rebooted and the same thing happened: : : kernel panic attemp to kill init! : and I had to shut down the system manually. I was installing it on a system with the following specs: Intel P4 1.6 GHz mainboard: ATX / XP4

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

2002-04-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Try this:- At the lilo splash screen ,hit Esc tab, and at the boot screen, type linux(or whatever it is listed as) nobiospnp enter When on desktop go to /etc/lilo.conf and edit the append=line by additng nobiospnp within the already established qyotes. John On Sunday 14 April 2002 14:09,

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-13 Thread Danny Luker
Charles, I ran the 'make distclean' prior to 'make xconfig' as you suggested and BAM! ... Working kernel! Thanks! I still have some config issues I'm dealing with but it is very nice to see the 'Uncompressing kernel image ... ' message on boot of my shiney new kernel. Thanks! Danny On

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-12 Thread Danny Luker
Thanks Charles ... I'll give this a spin and see what happens! I hope this is all that is missing. ;) And that I have not already broken something else. Much thanks Danny On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: Hi Danny Luker, Ref:My Last post about mrproper or distclean Either

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread K Montgomery
Did you indeed install the source in your home directory, as this line implies? cp ~/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot If you installed the source from an RPM, I think the default location is /usr/src, which is why I ask. I also ask: Did you get any fatal errors during the kernel

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread ai4a
K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350 MHz (older machine) and all is well. I just purchased a Sharp Zaurus SL5500 and much to my disappointment it does

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread Danny Luker
Hi Kathy, Thanks for your reply ... On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:18 pm, you wrote: Did you indeed install the source in your home directory, as this line implies? cp ~/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot If you installed the source from an RPM, I think the default location is

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread Danny Luker
Hi Charles and thanks for your reply On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350 MHz (older machine) and

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2002-04-11 Thread ai4a
Danny Luker wrote: Hi Charles and thanks for your reply On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: K Montgomery wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:24, Danny Luker wrote: My first post to this list! I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with rieserfs on a 256MB AMD K6 clocking 350

Re: [newbie] Kernel source question...

2002-03-31 Thread Rodrigo
Hi, I don't know if it will solve your problem, but it is worth to try. Take a look at the README file provided by Nvidia's tarball. If I remember correctly, you have to pass an argument, like make SYSINCLUDE=/path-to-your-kernel-sources-include-directory, when you compile the driver for a

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6

2002-03-24 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need help. I am running mandrake 8.1 and I installed the 8.2's kernel through rpm -ivh the following package: kernel-2.4.18.6-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Also I had to upgrade mkinitrd and findutils to satisfy

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6

2002-03-24 Thread Rodrigo
Thank you Frans ! Your explanation clarified things to me. I corrected fstab and using the other tools I verified swap is there, on and working fine. Nothing is wrong :-) Thanks, Rodrigo Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-19 Thread Mandrake Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you don't update newer kernels, you _install_ them. Download and rpm -ivh kernelname The name is different so it will install alongside the older kernel and be bootable. Updating usually leaves you with a new kernel and modules compiled for an older one, which

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-19 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Going back with my problem, anybody knows how to upgrade a newer kernel version using XFS (/usr, /home, /etc, /opt, etc...) and ext2 (/boot and /) filesystems and would you mind to give me your how-to's? Well if it is any use to you. All my partitions are XFS, and I did not have to do

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-19 Thread shane
and you might try a few diferent kernels, it may simply be that one of those kernels doesn't match your system in some way. i myself have 4 kernels installed but one of them refuses to boot. On Tuesday 19 March 2002 10:27, Derek Jennings opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: SNIP

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Mandrake Newbie wrote: Hello Linux gurus, I've been trying to upgrade my default kernel-2.4.8 of my Mandrake 8.1 to a newer version but with no luck. I don't know what's the matter that everytime I installed a newer kernel version, I can't boot from it. I am using XFS for my /usr, /home,

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17.17mdk

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:12 am, shane wrote: i should know this, but what is the remove switch? anything special to remove a bad kernel? i have about 6 now and only two that are worth keeping :-) On Wednesday 06 March 2002 06:38, Tom Brinkman opened a hailing frequency and

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-02 Thread Derek Jennings
Of course you are correct. I should have said 'the 8.2 Beta3 kernel' Before long there will be a 'non-beta 8.2' kernel which can be used with confidence. derek On Friday 01 March 2002 22:16, you wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:48:17 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Rodríguez
:) I think you had the right idea, no need to worry too much, it is rather like pool You can do all of the work you need to do in any command line environment, that is opening up a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+1 or 2 etc), or in a terminal window, like the ones you use in KDE, xterm, aterm,

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Rodríguez
For doc purposes and correction let's post this to the list too, didn't realize i didn't send it to begin with On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:31, Wes Gregg wrote: Also where can I download this kernel version, and is it safer (iow which way is my file going to arrive without corruption?) to

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Rodríguez
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 16:05, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Just to clarify (not sure if I understood you correctly, but..) You don't want to use MandrakeUpdate or rpmdrake to upgrade or install a new kernel (good for everything but the kernel). Follow the steps at the Right. That much I

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Rodríguez
There is some lack of understanding on my part about whether or not I am downloading the correct kernel I understand that the enterprise is for multiple cpu's (I only have one 650mHz Athlon) so I don't want that one There is also a _third_ kernel there, it is smp What is that one

Re: [newbie] Kernel Decision - Which one?

2002-03-01 Thread Derek Jennings
I notice that there are already newer kernels than the one I was going to update to (24834) I am mainly looking for one with security updates to the one that came with my 81 powerpack That appears to be 24834, but I am reading that newer kernels may fix problems that I may not be

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade List Archives

2002-02-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 28 February 2002 05:58 pm, Wes Gregg wrote: Hello everyone, I am back to Mandrake Linux after a short hiatus I had to reinstall again due to what turned out to be errors on my hard drive I think I have them isolated now if so I should have a stable system

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade List Archives

2002-02-28 Thread Michael
Wes Gregg wrote: Hello everyone, I am back to Mandrake Linux after a short hiatus I had to reinstall again due to what turned out to be errors on my hard drive I think I have them isolated now if so I should have a stable system snip This brings up my

Re: [newbie] Kernel issue

2002-02-25 Thread Vijay Ramachandran
I guess if you're brave enough, you can try to download and compile a kernel yourself from kernel.org. When I tried this, it ended up causing me all kinds of problems - basically, my reiserfs partitions were corrupted due to problems with power-down. I would think that downloading the rpms from

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade Problem

2002-02-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 22 February 2002 07:55 am, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hi all, After the kernel upgrading using kernel-2.4.34.mdk.rpm If you did upgrade, that's probly most of the problem. Kernels should always be installed, eg, 'rpm -ivh kernel--rpm' This installs the new kernel

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17 install

2002-02-16 Thread skinky
On Friday 15 February 2002 15:42, Gerald Waugh wrote: [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:findutils ### [100%] [root@gerald

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17 install

2002-02-16 Thread skinky
On Friday 15 February 2002 16:31, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:42 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:findutils

Re: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:14:27 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi everyone, I am trying to install the alsa-driver, but I don't have the kernel sources. Can someone please tell me where to get them from? My kernel version is 2.4.8-26mdk. Mark recommended

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17 install

2002-02-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:31, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:42 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:findutils

Re: [newbie] Kernel or Module?

2002-02-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:57:45 -0500, Brian J. Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have attempted a recompile of my kernel several times over now and can't seem to get it right. I need to install soundcore into the kernel, but I also need to install several different modules in

Re: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-13 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:14:27 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW: They are not on the installation CDs. And I tried kernel-2.4.8-26mdk.src.rpm but I guess that's not what I am looking for). the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second

Re: [newbie] kernel

2002-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 07:54 pm, Eric McClure wrote: Well my kernel is name 2.4.17-10 using 'uname -r' to check. But when I used 'rpm -ivh kernel*' it updated the kernel no problem. I tried to update the source, headers, docs but gave me an error on the headers. so with uname -r it

Re: [newbie] kernel

2002-01-26 Thread Eric McClure
On Friday 25 January 2002 09:48, you wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:04:26 -0500 I've done a lot of searching but upgrading, while keeping lilo, kppp, and others happy seems like a daunting task. I wish it was easier. Thanks for your time, eric l. mcclure try the mandrakesecure site.

RE: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-14 Thread Johnson, David
? -Original Message- From: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Johnson, David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to] On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been

Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-11 Thread skinky
On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: | | I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in | http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 | and my question comes from this

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk (error messages on bootup)

2002-01-08 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 22:48, you wrote: Andre Dubuc wrote: I just installed kernel 2.4.8-31.2 to upgrade from 2.4.3-20. Later. I tried to install kernel 2.4.17.1-1 which did not install, because of failed dependencies. On reboot, I noticed a few error messages during boot-up. I

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init

2001-12-29 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment from my old

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init - Fixed

2001-12-29 Thread joe
adding the parameter nobiospnp to the append line in lilo.conf fixed the problem as Franz pointed out. Thanks, Franz! Joe On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:36, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong...

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Eric wrote: I did a kernel header, doc, and kernel update with mandrake on my 8.0 system. Everything installed just fine but I can no longer use ppp to get on the internet. I tried modprobe -v ppp and it can't seem to find it. I am out of ideas. Crapola I shouldn't have

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread Eric
: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] kernel update Eric wrote: I did a kernel header, doc, and kernel update with mandrake on my 8.0 system. Everything installed just fine but I can no longer use ppp to get

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread tester
- From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] kernel update Eric wrote: I did a kernel header, doc, and kernel update with mandrake on my 8.0 system. Everything installed just fine but I can no longer use ppp to get

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.13

2001-11-24 Thread Florian Struck
Thanx it worked quite fine the kernel loads nicely with my original settings . A few problems appeared though not directly related to the kernel . First the new kernel doesnt seem to accept the nvidia drivers so after switching the kernel i have to edit XF86config-4 cause the new kernel runs

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.13

2001-11-24 Thread Florian Struck
Thanx it worked quite fine the kernel loads nicely with my original settings . A few problems appeared though not directly related to the kernel . First the new kernel doesnt seem to accept the nvidia drivers so after switching the kernel i have to edit XF86config-4 cause the new kernel runs

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 problem

2001-10-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hmmm... Very strange indeed. There's an active discussion about Mandrake 8.1 problems at http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1257 Try posting your problem there. On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:38:04 +0800, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sridhar Lot of thanks for your response and

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-04 Thread AOL Systems
try to change your Mandrake CD try buying agai.that is the good part of Linux it is very cheap.heheheheeheeh!When it not works e-mail me.TY! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Stephen Liu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your further advice. Unfortunately I still encountered the same problem after

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 problem

2001-10-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Sridhar Lot of thanks for your response and time spent. Both /boot and /root are in Ext2. I also tried with only /root partition in Ext2 and the result was the same. Still I could not understand what mistake I have committed. Linux-Mandrake 7.2 runs great in the same PC and Hard

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Lot of thanks for your response and time spent. Still I could not understand what mistake I have committed. Linux-Mandrake 7.2 runs great in the same PC and Hard disc. I was a little bid tire of trying Linux-Mandrake 8.0 continuously without any result. Then I turned to Linux-Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Thanks for your further advice. Unfortunately I still encountered the same problem after repeated trials. My partition table as follows Native partition for /boot5 MB Swap260 MB (2 x 128 MB RAM) rest for root partition I even tried installing Mandrake 7.2 first.

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 (resend)

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Thanks for your further advice. Unfortunately I still encountered the same problem after repeated trials. My partition table as follows Native partition for /boot5 MB Swap260 MB (2 x 128 MB RAM) rest for root partition I even tried installing Mandrake 7.2 first.

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Thanks for your response and advice. I only have 2 partitions in my hard disc, the native and the swap. I am sure I have added a mount point / to the native partition. Pls try this pls add a linux native with mount point /boot so you can divide your boot partition to your original mount

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-01 Thread AOL Systems
Dear Sir Stephen Lui before adding a / linux native root partition just add first a native partition /boot with 5MB needed then after press add again for the swap partion your swap partion must be 2x your memory so for example you have 64mB memory your swap partion must be at least 128MB. then

Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.5...?

2001-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:22:04 -0400, Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:13:15 -0300 Nicolás Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: NG Hi Folks! when is the date that the Kernel 2.5 is expected to be NG released?? NG I read that it will has the ALSA

Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.5...?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen
That would be correct. The odd numbers are development kernels, and the even numbers are release kernels. So 2.5.x ; 2.7.x ; 2.9.x are development, 2.6.x ; 2.8.x wold be release. On Sunday 23 September 2001 08:22, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:13:15 -0300 Nicolás Gómez [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread Randy Donohoe
There was a thread going just last night about the Geforce and what kernels it works with. If it wasn't on this one it was on the expert list. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: Marcin Jendrzejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:25 AM

RE: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What's the error message when the Kernel Oops's? Cut and Paste from your /var/log/messages will be good, and you might want to ask on the Expert list too! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Marcin Jendrzejewski

Re: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread etharp
when you compile do you use make mrproper?On Tuesday 18 September 2001 09:25, you wrote: Hey folks, Lately I've been fiddling a lot with compiling the linux kernel 2.4.3 (both the vanilla one from kernel.org and the mandrake-customized version) and with both I seem to be getting lots of

Re: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-06 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 06:44 pm, you wrote: Alex, thank you very much for your help. In fact, I was not sitting in the correct directory as you politely pointed out in your note. Glad to help, after all, that is what this list is here for. One point of confusion that I've had is how

RE: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
: Bill Cole and Virginia Morton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands Alex, thank you very much for your help. In fact, I was not sitting in the correct

Re: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-05 Thread Bill Cole and Virginia Morton
Alex, thank you very much for your help. In fact, I was not sitting in the correct directory as you politely pointed out in your note. One point of confusion that I've had is how to reconcile differences between distributions with regard to where pieces of the system are located. I've have the

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2001-09-04 Thread Mohammed Arafa
sometimes it goes all the way up to kswap sometimes a black screen and sometimes it says somethign about unable to handle kernel paging address at virtual address 736f6962 there's more about bad eip oops: Aiee: killing interrupt handler and lots lots more whats all this mean? and this is

Re: [newbie] kernel panic

2001-09-04 Thread amit !!
Can u tell me which version of linux are you using and if you are facing probs regarding the installation u can try this u go in to the rom bios setting of ur comp and in the HDD section , make the access mode to NORMAL then re partition and try installing linux i hope u'll get thru it

Re: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-03 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 02 September 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: Having upgraded from 7.1 to 8.0 I wanted to change a couple of kernel settings and so typed in (at root) make menuconfig. The message returned was No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop. I also tried xconfig with the same result. I don't

Re: [newbie] Kernel Updating via RPM... How-to anyone?

2001-09-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 01 September 2001 18:32, Nelson Bartley wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel via the cooker RPM packages. Now I have no idea what I'm doing, and every time I install the new kernel it doesn't work. I was wondering if anyone has written a how-to on kernel updating via RPM for

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.9 problems

2001-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:53 am, Seeun William Umboh escribió: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV Please don't post in HTML. You were requested not to when you joined this list. I tried to compile the kernel 2.4.9 from kernel.org and met with mixed results. I don't understand

Re: [newbie] kernel.2.4.9 problems

2001-08-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 25 August 2001 12:37 pm, you wrote: I'm using LM 8.0, and i decided to upgrade my kelnel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. And after I compailed and instaled kernel, my linux box can't boot as I wish. Well I use my console in resoultion 1024x768 with 32k color palette (VGA=791) and when I

Re: [newbie] Kernel-2.4.6 and Automount !!!

2001-08-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:17, Lúcio Costa wrote: Hi Everybody !!! I have a newbie question to do. I founded in http://www.rpmfind.net the Kernel 2.4.6-20.mdk.rpm and modutils-2.4.6-2mdk.rpm. I did the download and executed this package. When Aurora start I saw one massage the automount

Re: [newbie] kernel blues

2001-08-19 Thread etharp
You Da MAnnn!!! On Sunday 19 August 2001 14:38, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: You cannot truly call yourself a man until you have compiled your own kernel-wooky, in linux-mandrake newbie mailing list. I am obviously a master in the ancient art of kernel compiling. Since most people

RE: [newbie] Kernel compilation

2001-08-05 Thread Rafael Lepra
PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [newbie] Kernel compilation Rafael: Look at www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html and www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html There's also been several discussions on this list -- see the newbies archive on the Mandrake site. Regards, Carroll Rafael Lepra

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