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Re: Can you help upgrading the kernel ?
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 b_amos@inter.net.il wrote:
R-T-F-M for christs sake, about upgrading from 1.2.xx kernels to the 2.0.x
kernels.
--Ariel
> I tried to upgrade from 1.2.13 to 2.0.12.
> Some of my problems are:
>
> 1) ls /usr/src/linux/modules
> NET_MISC_MODULES NET_MODULES bsd_comp.o
> more /usr/src/linux/modules/NET_MISC_MODULES
> ipv4.o
>
> Where is this ipv4 ? What is its importnace ?
>
> 2) Apr 12 21:45:04 rakefet kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device
> (8086:7030).
> Please read include/linux/pci.h.
>
> It is either my svga card or
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 or
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> (which is hdc: ACER CD-787E/JAS, ATAPI CDROM drive)
> Did some of you encountered such a problem ?
>
> 3) When I reboot, I am getting lots of lines like:
> INIT: error reading initrequest
> and between these lines there are other error messages that I can't
> see.
>
> Are these messages being logged some where ? And if not, how can I log
> them
> so that I will be able see all of them ?
> And another logging question: I was not been able to locate the messages
> that
> are being printed on the console when the inittab scripts start to run.
> Aren't
> them suposed to be logged in /var/log/something ? And if not, how can I
> log
> them ?
>
> 4) I didn't succeed in changing my RH picaso rc.d scripts so that
> they'll
> bring up the system with the new kernel the way the old kernel did.
> Can you
> email me the scripts that RH gives with their newest distributions
> (4 or 4.1) ?
>
> 5) Can you email me /usr/src/linux/.config of a "simple" machine (586 +
> eide hard
>
> disk + ATAPI cdrom + pci svga card) with kernel 2.0.x ? Perhaps I'll
> be able
> to conclude from it what pieces of the kernel I havn't put in place.
>
> 6) I ignored the kernel configuration script warning about some dsp
> device. Is it
> important ? Is there anybody else that saw this warning ?
>
> Thank you.
>
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| Ariel Biener |
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