On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks for your ideas.
>
> I recompiled the kernel anyway for SMP support.. However, the system wont
> boot with the SMP kernel.. After LILO, it says " Loading linux-smp.." then
> it locks up with the message "No setup signature found...".. My old working
> kernel is still in lilo, but when i rebooted to the old kernel, it boots but
> the network function fails.. Which is a big problem with me coz Im on a
> remote location..
>
> What does the error message mean? I wonder how the old kernel was affected.
> Perhaps it was when I did "make modules; make modules_install " after
> compiling the SMP kernel?
If you are using the same kernel version, then you overwrote your uni-processor
kernel's modules with smp versions. that's bound to confuse the entire
situation. Only hope here is to reinstall the stock kernel RPM, or recompile
the kernel+modules in another machine, copy it over to the dead machine and
retry lilo-ing the image.
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