Hello James, Sorry for late answer but I was worry about the new Randolph patch for the N4k discontigous mm :-$
> > > Thanks Thibaut, I guess I will keep an eye out for a fix but until then I > will do what you suggest. umm Thibaut seems to confirm the same pb I mentioned :) and you could try it's tips but iirc it will not works (device busy :( ) Any way you have right: I forgot a lot of details. For my part it was a external disk which I can mount on another parisc-linux box to re-install previous initscript dpkg; then reboot, update patch the kernel (sorry I don't have enough time to check if 2.4 included the willy's patch) and re-install new initscript dpkg. (and last reboot to check the patch efficiency :) ) OTC if it's an internal disk, it would be more helpfull to reboot from your install cd and from the install menu launch a shell (if you need you can have a look at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2004/06/msg00017.html> where I explain in detail howto). at this place create a /MNT dir on wish you can mount your root fs (mount /dev/sda2 /MNT) edit your /MNT/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh (pay attention vi doesn't exist on your cd ramdisk but well nano :) ) and apply the tips I mentioned here <http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2004/03/msg00070.html> (in essence insert '-t $roottype' in all mount cmd). Here you would be able to reboot on your hd to update your kernel. pff... less trivial then I remember, once again apologies but it was so far ;) That said if something is not yet clear don't hesitate to come back :) hth, Joel PS: I was surprised that you were able to run a smp kernel on a N model, hoppefully only one cpu exists or is configured :). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiscali ADSL LIGHT, 19,95 EUR/mois pendant 6 mois, c'est le moment de faire le pas! http://reg.tiscali.be/default.asp?lg=fr
