On Sat, November 6, 2004 7:42 pm, Christopher Sawtell said: > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:16, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> I would have liked to try a 2.6 kernel to see if that would help, but >> never managed to get an initrd.img built that would actually boot.I >> learnt >> loads about how initrd actually works, and the like, but never quite >> enough ): > I'd appreciate being told a few references because I want to go down that > track too. > > You don't _have_ to use the initrd.img route to get a kernel to boot. > It's quite possible to boot the kernel itself directly from grub or lilo. > > The 2.6 Kernel gives a very distinct improvement to the apparent > responsivity > of a desktop machine, mainly because the 2.6 Kernel can interrupt itself. > Whether or not it would produce the same in a server situation I know not. > Please could you keep us informed. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell ( Pantheist ) >
Hi Christopher, The problem I had was with the new module_init_tools stuff for 2.6. No matter what I did, I got the 2.4 version built in. And I did a lot. The other problem, of course, is that I'm no longer running a true RHEL3 (clone), which bothers me a little bit, on the oracle side. Steve
