I am having some serious kernel problems in both 2.2.17-11 and
2.4.0-24.. i'l start with the 2.2.17
I need to have agp compiled into the kernel not as a module as it is
very unstable as a module on my mb (ali154x)
when compiling in the kernel i get errors at the final link in main.o
about call's to to undeclared functions (agp_setup) and (agp_initialize)
as well as a problem with drivers/char/Makefile and
drivers/char/agp/Makefile
one the agp/Makefile creates agp.o
the drivers/char/Makefile looks for agpgart.o
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now i said.. ok? let's try development kernel! yeah 2.4 i have that at
my fingertips too.
first shot was with compiling kernel from hackkernel source
everything compiled fine till the final link then it segfaults on the ld
command.
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ok my next try after spending some time in #linux was to dl the
2.4.0-test8 bziped source
after the first compile and relizeing that it dosen't have reiserfs in
it i patched the kernel with the correct.
ok finaly got it made correctly ( oh and btw under the stock kernel 2.4
you can compile without smp support!!;p )
reboot and it just started to spew shit about the scsi drive sd0 etc
over and over.. ok scratch that idea.
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on to my next adventure.. this was a good one.
i said FINE.. let's instlall the hackkernel that you guys compiled and
give it a wirl...
everything worked fine till rc.sysinit told it to do a mount -f / where
it kernel oops and segfaulted. now i know this is a development kernel..
but..
ok fine.. i said i'l go back to the kernel 2.2.17
only to descover after the rpm --install hackernel-2.4.0.0-24mdk it left
the old kernel unbootable (was complaing about unresolved symbols in
/lib/reiserfs and aic7xxx.o) first off the mods arn't in /lib there in
/lib/modules/2.2.17-11mdk/fs/ or whatever.. so that was confusing...
I did descover that booting the rescue image off the floppy and
chrooting to the now mounted root partintion i was able to compile and
succesfully install the kernel (although it kept complaining about dates
being wrong )
so i have descoverd that if you install hackkernel after kernel you have
to reinstall kernel this BAD (tm) ;)
ok one last rant
if you don't have a vesa fb (i compiled in matrox_fb) it barfs Aurora
hard to the point it would not boot till i rebooted into the rescue and
did an rpm -e Aurua... we need to have it fallback to normal boot if no
valid fb device is found!
-DarkWlf
