Tom Brinkman wrote:
> I've posted a few times recently that I couldn't get supermount
> (with ReiserFS) working with a 2.4 kernel. I've also been doing all
> Chris Molnar's KDE2 updates, and began to have show stopper problems
> after 20010109. The same was true for the latest 20010122 updates,
> so I decided to reinstall 7.2. That and Chris' latest upddates went
> so well, I decided to try again with 2.4, so I d/l'd the pre-built
> kernel-2.4.0-11mdk after reading on the cooker list that supermount
> "now works right out of the box" with the ready made kernel.
>
> It doesn't ....but the fix is so simple I believe I could'a had a
> 2.4 with supermount long before now. It finally dawned on me that
> 'supermount.o' is in a different location with 2.4 kernels. So I
> edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime this line ~~
>
> # Disabling supermount if not here
> if [[ $(uname -m) != sparc* ]];then
> if grep -q '^\/.*supermount.*' /etc/fstab && \
> [ ! -f "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/supermount/supermount.o"
> . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ] && [ -x /usr/bin/perl ];then
> action "Disabling Supermount" /usr/sbin/supermount -i disable
>
> ~~ to reflect 'supermount.o's new location. Voila! Now I have
> 2.4.0-11 with supermount on ReiserFS. PPP was also not working "right
> out of the box", but a simple 'modprobe -v ppp_async' statement at the
> end of rc.local fixed that.
> --
> Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Hello Tom
Thanks a lot for the advice.
I am having an dual-Celleron box, and have read, that the greatest
advantage with the 2.4 kernel, should be it's ability to handle
multiprocessor systems, so I was very eager to get it running - thoug not
at any price. I am still using an K56 modem, so the ppp-support is a must.
I don't quite know why ppp is not supported in the new precompiled
smp-versions! because it is in the 2.2.... Supermount is a neat thing to
have too.
Once again - thanks a lot - now I'm running the 2.4 kernel
Mogens Jæger
