On 3 Oct 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> [...]
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> > 1. MBR: no existing choices were picked up from hda5, so no way to boot into
> > old LM7.2 since I get a kernel panic after adding that choice to LILO... (still
> > investigating, though 8.1 looks good enough to let 7.2 go)
>
> Kernel panicing? Probably incorrect root= kernel parameter?
Thanks for responding!
Probably... I was extremely tired after working on this install
overnight. Will check when I return home on Friday. However, today, I'm
installing 8.1 on another system and will have more problems and
suggestions to report...
> > 2. had to specify mem=1024M on lilo; system only saw 896M -- was OK on LM7.2
>
> Use kernel-enterprise, you'll have trouble after 896M with normal kernel.
Ummm...
Linux bones.pfortin.com 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 16:36:00
CEST 2001 i686 unknown
is what got installed... I did not choose this explicitly.
> > 4b. why does this beast go through everything for EACH user...? Surely the
> > network stuff is not likely to change per user...
>
> This should not do the same concerning draknet, but the rest is useful for
> each user.
Well... each user is given the screen to setup the network; this is silly
IMHO.
> > 6. The Sound Blaster PCI-128 worked fine on LM7.2 and I have another on my LM8.0
> > machine which works fine... sndconfig claims that this card is not
> > supported...! Do I have to boot kernel 2.2...?
>
> It's PCI so what is the output of "lspcidrake -v" and what gives when you
> simply modprobe the right module? Have you investigated rebooting with
> 2.2?
snd-card-ens1370: Ensoniq|ES1370 [AudioPCI] [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
(vendor:1274 device:5000 subv:4942 subd:4c4c)
# lsmod (before modprobe)
Module Size Used by
sound 60512 0 (unused)
soundcore 4624 2 [sound]
loop 8944 6 (autoclean)
ip_vs 66256 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipchains 38960 0
nls_iso8859-1 2896 3 (autoclean)
isofs 19104 3 (autoclean)
vfat 10320 0 (autoclean)
fat 33216 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sr_mod 14720 0 (autoclean)
mga 101712 1
agpgart 28160 3
lp 5936 0
parport_pc 20656 1
parport 26240 1 [lp parport_pc]
af_packet 13872 1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 22448 0 (unused)
usbcore 53536 1 [usb-uhci]
3c509 7920 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 26768 1 (autoclean)
st 27024 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 8224 0
rtc 6480 0 (autoclean)
aha152x 32556 5
sd_mod 11540 5
scsi_mod 95548 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi aha152x sd_mod]
# modprobe snd-ens1370
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd-ens1370 9232 0 (unused)
snd-pcm 35200 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-timer 9968 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ak4531-codec 15776 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-mixer 26656 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-ak4531-codec]
snd-rawmidi 11232 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-seq-device 4256 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 37808 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ak4531-codec snd-mixer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
sound 60512 0 (unused)
soundcore 4624 2 [snd sound]
loop 8944 6 (autoclean)
ip_vs 66256 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipchains 38960 0
nls_iso8859-1 2896 3 (autoclean)
isofs 19104 3 (autoclean)
vfat 10320 0 (autoclean)
fat 33216 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sr_mod 14720 0 (autoclean)
mga 101712 1
agpgart 28160 3
lp 5936 0
parport_pc 20656 1
parport 26240 1 [lp parport_pc]
af_packet 13872 1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 22448 0 (unused)
usbcore 53536 1 [usb-uhci]
3c509 7920 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 26768 1 (autoclean)
st 27024 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 8224 0
rtc 6480 0 (autoclean)
aha152x 32556 5
sd_mod 11540 5
scsi_mod 95548 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi aha152x sd_mod]
When I have physical access to the system on Friday, I will retry...
My real issue is the inability for my pre-8.1 userids to use X...
Thanks,
Pierre
