Re: 7.1 is out soon

[Ramiel Givergis <ramiel relm net>]

Interesting, I also have problems with loop.o in Red Hat.

I run Red Hat 7.0 and I compiled in 2.4.3 but I can't get the
loop.o to work.  And I need the initrd image for my SCSI or
I can't boot, and mkinitrd needs loop.o and since I can't get
kernel 2.4.3 to use loop.o right I have to reboot to my stock
2.2.17-14 redhat kernel that has the working loop.o and then
compile a new 2.4.x kernel.

I've tried doing the loop.o as static and as LKM and both
don't work :-(



ABrady wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:13:35 +0600 (LKT) Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>
> spake unto us:
>
> > On  Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Weston Rogers commented thusly,
>
> > And please tell us what are the gripes you had with Debians potato, so
> if
> > they are justified I can report them to the relevant authorities?
>
> Here's one: Potato and an earlier version (sorry I don't recall which but
> it was a couple of years back) wouldn't work with my external SCSI cd
> drive because it wouldn't recognize my AHA-1505 scsi card (aha152x.o) in
> either instance. No scsi recognition at installation time, no
> installation, no checky-checky. Tried several times in both instances.
> Several times a failure. Haven't tried since and not sure I ever will
> again.
>
> BTW, also had trouble with Turbolinux 6.0 (booting after install would
> stop about halfway through-something about rpmrc, though I don't recall
> the specific error), Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 wouldn't work with my video card
> (S3 Virge/DX-supposedly supports it but would try to scramble the innards
> of my monitor) and I didn't have months to take installing Slackware a
> little at a time. Redhat distros have worked fine in all of these
> instances. My only real problem here have to do with getting loop.o
> compiled when compiling a new kernel(failing every attempt so far),
> getting the module compiled for my D-Link NIC (rtl8139, though the 8390too
> is supposed to work and hasn't-fixed this by switching to another NIC I
> had on hand) and getting the insmod of my NIC modules to work (I can do a
> workaround for this one). Turbolinux 4 installed & worked BTW, so it was
> something they changed later.
>
> Not sure if RH has anything to do with the loop.o, rtl8139 or 8930too
> stuff. Still sorting those out. But, the point is, I can get installed,
> configured and working no sweat. The others were headaches in this regard,
> except Debian which never made it past the inital bootup of the
> installation because it wouldn't cooperate.
>
> I've spent my $.02 now, and will retreat from any further tit-for-tat
> flaming in this never-ending discussion.
>
> --
> Talk is cheap because the supply vastly exceeds the demand.
>
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