Gerry wrote:
> Hello.. I just installed version 2.4.2 of the kernel from source (need 2.4
> for some stuff). At boot i get this message:
>
> Uncompressing Linux..
> Ran out of input data
> -- System halted
>
> Any idea why this happens ?
>
> Also, i rebuilt the nvidia geforce-driver to link to the new kernel before
> testing if the new kernel worked (i know, STUPID! :) .. No problems with
> that, but when i tried to make it again back with the old kernel, it didn't
> want to install. It does link against the old kernel, but during installing
> it complains about unresolved links. Before i installed that new kernel this
> worked fine..
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Gerry
We just went over something like this in class, and it may be your problem. If
you install the kernel code with rpm -Uvh it upgrades your current code and you
can't go home again unless you restore from your backup. If you use rpm -ivh it
installs the code in a directory of its own.
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