Messages in this thread | | | From | "William Beebe" <> | Subject | Development kernel 1.2.128 and RedHat 5.2 | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:33:12 -0500 |
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This is an informational message only. I'm not asking for help. Much ;|
I have a system with the following characteristics: Micronics M54Pe, Rev B, BIOS rev 16, with a pair of Pentium 133's 64MB EDO DRAM AHA1542CF SCSI controller with a Barracuda 9 Eon DaVinci (S3 Virge clone) w/4MB WD/SMC W8013 NIC
Software: The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. It is an upgrade of a RH 5.1 system. I use lilo with multiple selections to boot various kernels. The core software installed matches or exceeds software versions listed in Documentation/Changes.
While I have had no problems building development kernels, I have had problems booting (and testing) the resultant kernel.
The problem was that 2.1.128 rebooted the system when it appeared to reach portmapper initialization. A comment from Trevor Adams (highlander@teleteam.net) suggested I unconfig the experimental NFS server code. This did the trick, allowing 2.1.128 to fully boot and start Linux.
There are, however, other problems, particularly running X windows (XFree86 with KDE 1.0). Depending on how the system feels, X will stay up from minutes to hours, before something causes the system to spontaneously reboot.
I'm looking at prior messages and other resources to determine the causes of this instability, and will (hopefully) fix this problem as well.
I would also like to thank Alan Cox for his help.
-- "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning ..." --Carlos Nunes-Ueno
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