Dale Scheetz writes: >Well, I've done it to myself again... I installed the image package for the >1.2.13 R4 kernel, did the rdev setup on vmlinuz and copied the new one to my >dos partition (that's where I boot from with loadlinux). When I rebooted I >was told that I was trying to boot an unconfigured system, and that I should >configure it from the boot/root disks. I did that, but with what I think may >have been an outdated boot/root disk set, because when it came time to >configure modules I could not get any response other than <module name> >doesn't exist: try another. >Well, I was able to boot the system but it still isn't right.(No DUuuh) The >boot up messages indicate that the modules are being loaded as usual, but if >I try to use pppd I get told that PPP is not available on this machine! >If I get a new boot/root disk pair, do I have any hope of untangling this >mess by reconfiguring? >I have upgraded the kernel 3 times in the last month. Each time, installing >with dpkg and setting the root and swap devices with rdev has been all that >was necessary. What happened with this particular package? > >All help is greatly appreciated, Dale >
Did you upgrade to ppp-2.2 ? Please include version numbers for all relevant packages in your message. Here is my working (if you see this message) combination. baal:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 1.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.6.3) #7 Thu Oct 19 07:25:57 MET 1995 baal:~$ dmesg | grep "PPP: version" PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) baal:~$ dpkg --list ppp source Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii ppp 2.2 1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. ii source 1.2.13 4 Linux kernel source. -- Siggy (the middle S.)
