Yes. And by the way, you can get your 243-8 entry by dl
kernel-2.4.3-8mdk.i586.rpm and rpm -i --replacepkgs. Using rpmdrake
update to that new kernel update by chmou and you see 243-9 in lilo.
On 07 Apr 2001 23:55:20 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> /ChangeLog/1.480/Fri Apr 6 17:05:11 2001//
> Installation type: expert upgrade from hd.img-2.2.17-BOOT8
>
> It went pretty well this time - just a couple of things...
>
> 1) DrakeLogo-1.0-20mdk.i586.rpm segfaults. When the installer retries
> bad packages, it would be better if it retried individual packages -
> redoing the same batch is useless - the first one fails and they all do.
>
> 2) No initrd was made in the install, so I couldn't try 2.4.3-8mdk -
> first boot was into kernel 2.2.19-6mdk. I tried mkinitrd but it hung the
> console every time with no result.
>
> I copied the /boot stuff and /lib/modules stuff to my 7.2 partition and
> ran mkinitrd from there. It complained that it couldn't find aix7xxx
> module. True, it wasn't there, but the _old one (that works for me) was
> there, so I decompressed it (this is 7.2) and renamed it to aix7xxx.o.
>
> I now have an initrd for 2.4.3-8mdk but I haven't had time to test it yet
> - still busy working in 7.2.
>
> I found out about this aix7xxx problem when I built a 2.4.2-18mdk kernel
> for 7.2. The aix7xxx.o didn't work at all, so I had to configure for the
> aix7xxx_old.o module to build the kernel, then I had to rename
> aix7xxx_old.o to aix7xxx.o, otherwise modprobe wouldn't play.
>
> This is all a bit messy. Does anyone actually use the new (supported??)
> aix7xxx.o?
>
> ********************************************************************************
> System: Gigabyte GA-6BXE ATX motherboard
> Intel 440BX chipset
> PIIX4 onboard IDE controller: no drives
> Intel PII-400
> 384MB 100 MHz SDRAM
> PDC20267 Promise UDMA100 PCI IDE controller: 4 Maxtor drives
> PDC20262 Promise UDMA66 PCI IDE controller: 1 Maxtor drive
> Adaptec AHA-2940AU with 1 IBM drive, DVD-ROM, writer, Umax 2400S scanner
> Matrox G400 32MB
> CTX-1792UA 17-inch monitor
> SB AWE64 (isapnp)
> HP-Colorado Travan T1000 floppy tape drive
> USR 56K external Message Modem on ttyS01
> 3 1/2 inch floppy drive
> HP DeskJet 720C
> ********************************************************************************
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
> KDE 2.1
> Linux 2.2.17-27mdkWin4Lin, Uptime 3 hours 48 minutes
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
