Re: weird kernel upgrade problem

[Jan Carlson <janc kubwa com>]

First try the latest supported update kernel, kernel-2.4.9-13.
It installs and runs without a murmur along with the other
updates for enigma.

Then try the possibly dangerous kernel-2.4.16-0.13 from
ftp://rawhide.redhat.com.  It has been running for me on enigma
since yesterday and I haven't seen any damage yet.

Rawhide packages are works in progress - not supported and often
broken, but sometimes they work amazingly well too.  Use only on
machines that are 'disposable' or that you are willing to risk having
to reinstall.

kernel-2.4.16-0.13 wants gcc3 and libgcc which I installed from
enigma, not rawhide.  It also wants a newer modutils so I tried
modutils from rawhide - but had problems with it.  

So I tried going back to the enigma modutils. The depmod complains
but it seems to be enough to let mkinitrd build me a new initrd.
I can boot without major errors and disaster has not hit yet.
And, hdparm -t says my ATA100 drive is now 40% faster.  

Send me your camera - I'll try it out for you !! :-)

Update kernels and rawhide kernels much easier 
and quicker than a from-scratch port of the latest kernel to enigma.  

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:28:36PM +0000, Ralph Houben wrote:
> hi and HNY to you all :)
> 
> i'm kinda new to the 2.4.x series kernels
> since i only a few week ago moved from Zoot
> to Enigma.
> 
> my problem is as follows, as soon as i
> make and build my kernel from 2.4.17 src,
> i install it and build it succesfully,
> but the new kernel upon reboot does not work
> properly. i've setup syslog to output some
> of the syslog data on tty12. when syslog
> starts at reboot it cannot find /dev/tty12
> neither can it find /dev/tty0 wich i think
> is really strange. it says "no such file or
> directory". it cannot mount /dev/hda3 (my
> swap partition) either. i tried re-routing the
> kernel messages in syslog.conf to hopefully
> gain some more insight of everything with:
> 
> kernel.*   /var/log/kernel
> 
> but this attempt was unsuccessfull. syslog
> upon reboot did not log anything at all.
> (i think i should add a bit more to that and
> hopefully that might provide you with some more
> information about this problem but for now
> the info is pretty vague. sorry :(  )
> 
> after the machine "boots" it comes to the point
> where its supposed to switch to the login-screen
> but it then comes up with the error about LD and
> numbers 1 thru 5 and says they are disabled for
> 5 minutes. after that i cannot do anything
> anymore but press ctrl+alt+del to reboot back
> to my orignal kernel.
> 
> i heave searched the News groups archives of
> google for a solution but no joy :(
> 
> have i missed some driver / modules in the
> kernel config somewhere maybe? and if so,
> wich one would you guys think it is?...
> 
> the current installed kernel (out of the
> box kernel by redhat 2.4.7-10) works normally
> without any problems. the reason i want a newer
> kernel is to try and "read out" my olympus 860l
> digital camera.
> 
> i am not sure if this has something to do
> with the problem aswell but i cant seem to
> be able to compile any program successfully
> yet the same software works brilliantly on
> my other harddisk with zoot (6.2) and 2.2.19
> kernel. (i think this is some kind of library
> problem of some sort because it cannot find
> many libraries wich according to rpm are
> installed)
> 
> i do not know if it is this list the right
> list to wich i should address this issue or
> the kernel.org list. if its the wrong list,
> then please tell me so that i can mail them.
> 
> greetings,
> 
> ralph
> 
> 
> 
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Jan Carlson                                 janc at kubwa dot com