Re: APM problem?

[Peter Bailey]

did you reinitialize lilo?  go type lilo at a prompt as root.  if that's
not it, make sure you are using the new kernel.  also, it's a good idea
NOT to overwrite your old kernel unless you are sure it's working 100
percent.  if you have a lack of hd space, remove it.. whatever, but if you
have the 500k to spare, copy the old kernel to vmlinuz-2.0.xx or whatever
and re-reference it in the lilo.conf file and then run lilo again.  keep
in mind that the top billing in lilo.conf is the default boot.

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Paul M.N Feehan wrote:

> I recently decided to recompile my kernel (2.0.35, slackware 3.6 on an
> i3000) and enable APM, essentially following Tomasz Barszczak's tips from
> his i3000 page. I backup my old /vmlinuz, do a make zdisk to write the
> kernel to a floppy and a zImage, and then copy the new zImage to /vmlinuz,
> exacty as in the kernel howto.
> 
> At this point, though, something weird happens:
> 
> When I try to test out the new kernel by booting off the floppy, I see
> that APM is loaded as it should be and halt -p gives a power-off, as
> expected. *However*, when I try booting up in the usual way with lilo
> pointing to my new /vmlinuz on the hard disk, APM is not loaded and halt
> -p no longer gives a power-off.
> 
> At this point, I thought I must have copied the wrong kernel image.
> However, after copying the floppy kernel onto my hard disk a couple of
> times and recompiling the kernel again, being extra careful, I still get
> the same problem: when booting off a floppy, APM is loaded, but when
> booting off the same kernel image on my hard disk, APM is not loaded. 
> 
> Would anyone have any ideas?? Thanks in advance!
> 
> PS: Thanks very much to the several people who responded with their
> experiences regading backup programs. I haven't had a chance to try any of
> those programs out yet... 
> 
> Paul Feehan
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