On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, David Reviejo wrote: > > There are two solutions that I know of: > > 1) apply a patch, which flushes the cache. Unfortunately this > causes other machines to crash so is not universally applicable > (hence the tecra disks being segragated from the mainstream) > > 2) build a zimage, rather than bzimage kernel. This seems to get > round the problem. use the --zimage option to make-kpkg, or even > set this as the default in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf. > > > If this is your problem, the kernel image from the Slink second CD is a > zImage; > you can use this until you build one by your own. > I used the 3rd solution. I turned off the cache. It started remarkable slow, but better than nothing. Then I compiled as first thing a new kernel zImage, ran LILO, turned the cache back on - done.
Matth
