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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                                            |
   | e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il        Work ph: 03-6406086 |
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