Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 20:23 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
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>> recover it, I had a power failure which required that I reboot.  That
>> left me in .31 due to the fact that the old kernel isn't saved anymore
>> like it used to be as a backup.   I wonder why that important piece of
>> safety equipment was removed?
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> It wasn't removed: rather it was never there. Yast always replaces the
> kernel and every other package it installs.
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The kernel obviously was there in /boot and it was removed and
replaced.   Back in 9.3 or so, when a kernel was replaced, it wasn't
removed but used as a backup.   That saved my buns more than once and I
lament the change to replace and remove  of the current versions.

>> Anyhow, if anyone has a copy of that rpm, I would dearly love it if you
>> could somehow get it to me.   I have checked all the places that usually
>> have copies but they have mysteriously disappeared. :(
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> Does the one on the DVD work?
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The DVD has -23 on it and no, that had a bug.   -25 came out and
suddenly the driver was able to work.  When .29 came out, it was broken
again as is .31     I would try and compile the kernel again but I don't
think I could ever get all the options the same as 'bigsmp' was as
released in the rpm.   Darned power failures anyhow!    A few more
minutes and I would have recovered the rpm off of the raid :(

> You should report on bugzilla your problem with the new kernel that
> the old hasn't, anyhow, so that the new one can be patched.

I submitted a bug report a long time ago on this along with a GPL's copy
of the source code to the driver which compiled sucessfully with -25 but
not on the others.  The bug is still open and the manufacturer has other
cards with 'higher priorities'.   Their controller is super, their
support leaves a lot to be desired.


Richard
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