From: Margaret Leber (pshpn.xlae@rivnet.net)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 06:16:24 EEST
On Saturday 18 August 2001 22:41, jabennett wrote in "Re: compiling
kernel 2.4.2":
> After enduring some rather screwy attempts to correctly build a new
> kernel with ax25 from the 7.1 release sources, I obtained and used
> the rpm upgrades on the RH site for the kernel (2.4.3-12) and the gcc
> compiler (2.96-85). This resulted in causing a major system crash on
> the HP Vectra VL5/133 I was using. Was not recoverable - the HD was
> scrambled beyond repair.
Interestingly enough, I did the RH binary RPM kernel upgrade to
2.4.3-12 to my 7.1 system in hopes of getting two warring PCI cards to
live together in peace. While the two cards are still unhappy with each
other, the 2.4.3-12 kernel seems to work OK. So your issues may indeed
be BIOS related.
The Red Hat instructions do need some work though.
> * Might suggest following Red Hat's instructions on their web site
> (or printed documentation) on how to build and install upgraded
> kernels so that you have the option of booting the old one if there
> are problems. It's a simple procedure and is worth the few extra
> minutes to do. It has saved my butt on several occasions.
Gwen *was* using those procedures on her machine...an alternate kernel
image (she's loading it with "loadlin" rather than "lilo", since she's
still dual-booting with Win98) The problem wasn't the kernel itself,
but that the how-to she was following had her make clean and install
the kernel modules...many of whom utterly failed to compile.
So, with neither her ethernet card working nor her cdrom drive due to
the broken modules, we booted up from a rescue disk and copied the
kernel RPM in with wget from the Apache server on my machine, then
returned to boot her new kernel (which was by itself working OK) and
used rpm to --upgrade --force the vanilla modules back into the system.
Cleaning the modules would likely have been harmless if they had just
*compiled*.
I'm thinking possibly the source as delivered with 7.1 is broken
somehow...although if there's problems with GCC it could be that too.
Certainly the errors from the compiles I saw sounded pretty deeply
broken. I don't think she patched anything above the 7.1 distro, so
that's worth looking into. But after the debacle with GCC as delovered
but 7.0 you'd think they would have been more careful.
As long-time RedHat users we're admiting ruefully that Debian's looking
better and better to us these days... :-)
73 de Maggie K3XS
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