Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:48:58 +0100 (CET) | From | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <> | Subject | Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux |
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Wrong list, but this needs to be set straight. Please send any further problem reports about Red Hat Linux to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective.
With the exception that it works for everyone else.
> (1) It will not create a bootable disk because it forgets > to load scsi_mod.o, and sd_mod.o before it loads > aic7xxx.o
This doesn't happen here. It's supposed to use modprobe, which automatically finds these dependencies.
> /etc/conf.modules was found to contain only aic7xxx > as an alias for scsi_hostadapter.
How did you install that? From a relatively fresh 6.2 install (this box doesn't have any SCSI controllers or soundcards):
# cat /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 3c90x alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> (3) It "sort of" worked. However, network daemons kept > dropping core. X would eventually crash, leaving the > terminal in an unusable state, etc.
Are you sure the hardware is ok? Applications that usually work well dumping core is usually a sign of bad memory or overheated CPUs. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for more detailed information.
It's either this, or you've added customizations that don't work, or you've used a CD someone has tampered with.
We know of _many_ servers running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with an uptime ever since they first installed.
> (4) It is impossible to build a known working kernel on the > machine because the linker, `ld` crashes:
Same as (3). I've been using 6.2 until 7 was released, I usually compile about 25 packages a day, and I've never seen ld crashing.
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