| From | "Jeff Willis" <> | Subject | Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0400 |
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> > Most of my boxes won't even run a 2.5 tree yet. I'm sure its hardly > > unique. Middle of November we may begin to find out how solid the core > > code actually is, as drivers get fixed up and also in the other > > direction as we eliminate numerous crashes caused by "fixed in 2.4" bugs
You're right, it's not unique. Will they run 2.4? I've got about a dozen boxes that have had over a year uptime with 2.0 or 2.2, but won't boot with the 2.4 or the recent 2.5 I tried.
> Well why don't they run with 2.5?
Good question. With the 2.4 kernels I've tried zImages worked fine but bzImages wouldn't boot. Unfortunately, with the options I need, the kernel won't fit in a zImage. The servers were all originally AMI motherboards, but after replacing a few due to failures, there's a few Abit, Tyans and Gigabyte replacements. The Gigabyte (model GA-8IRXP, I think) will boot bzImages, but I hate to replace motherboards that have worked fine for years just to boot the new 2.6/3.0.
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