Well, at the suggestion of someone on the list, I downloaded, built, and installed the 9.0 update kernel 2.4.19-24mdk. Doesn't work. Not at all. I also built 2.4.18 from MDK 8.2 (and have been using my own build of the default MDK 9.0 kernel) and can use each without problems. 2.4.19-24mdk, which I have now rebuilt 4 times, wont even kernel panic-it doesn't even get THAT far. It doesn't do anything. At all. No disk activity, no beeps, no messages. Just a blank, black screen for as long as I desire to let it sit. No messages in any logs.
Anything kernel-wise from 2.4.19 or higher has been a complete, total loser for me. It is either kernel panics (can't find init even though there IS an init), no bootups, loss of support for xfs or even rieserfs (on several ocassions). What is going on here...is it something endemic to the newest Mandrake release or is it the kernels (and thus the kernel developers dropping big balls left and right)? As it is, I am once again migrating back to at least the 8.2 kernel so that my peripherals will work again and I wont lose any filesystem support or suffer kernel panics. Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are you simply using the binary version. What did MandrakeSoft do to get it to build and actually work, if this is the case? To what god(s) did they offer sacrifice to so that it would work on any hardware at all? praedor
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