On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, elijah wright wrote: > > My kernel was ancient: 2.0.34. So I grabbed the source for 2.2.17pre6 > > from the source directory, built it and rebooted - and got a complete and > > utter crash. > > I'm long out of practice. My milo is from kernel 2.0.30, which could be a > > things, like the date is 1970, and I've been getting lots of messages > > i had similar problems with my alpha for a while. (couldn't boot new > kernels from my 2.0.30 milo disk, which i'd had since i got the > machine)... the fix was to reinstall and make it boot from SRM, "the way > it should be".... :)
Ah, thanks. I don't have SRM, so I won't be able to do that. Do I just need a new milo then, do you think? If old milos can't boot new kernels, can new milos boot old kernels? ... Cheers, Nikhil. +--------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nikhil Nair | | | Department of Chemistry | Tel.: +44 1223 336350 (lab) | | University Chemical Laboratory | +44 1223 368353 (home) | | Lensfield Road | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cambridge | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | CB2 1EW | | | England | | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------+
