On Saturday 17 November 2001 14:29, Bruce Marshall enunciated: > On Friday 16 November 2001 23:25 pm, dallam wrote: > > Could I ask why if you are using a SuSE distro you didn't download > > the kernel rpm and kernel source rpm from the ftp site and use it? > > Vanilla kernels don't do well with SuSE IIRC: > > Beg to differ with you. I've run every vanilla kernel on SuSE 7.2 except > 2.4.9 and they have all gone without problems. And I've avoided many > problems and quirks that seem to show up in the ftp site kernels. > > I will never use an SuSE kernel.
Ah, man after my own heart, Bruce! but I will admit to having just had a problem getting back up after installing a 2.4.12 kernel, 2.4.14 would NOT compile without an error in the block-drivers-block. lo_scan no matter what I did. so recompiled a vanilla 2.4.10 and that stuffed something up in lilo, geez I hate that 'lilo', grub is not a selection in Suse. Its taken me about 5 hrs to get back in. What significance does initrd have in suse, can it be ignored or is it 'needed'............... Are there any caveats with recompiles. BTW I am using 7.3 and there are differences with it and 7.2 -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
