b.n. wrote:
Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. ha scritto:
Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel?
Basically, when you need to.
I lived with 2.6.16 until two weeks ago, and before 2.6.16 I lived with
2.6.12 much longer.
If you don't feel the need of a new kernel, I don't see any reason to
upgrade.
A famous
Bruce Munro ha scritto:
A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts
on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once
asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because
it is there.
Surely a very similar argument applies to
b.n. wrote:
Bruce Munro ha scritto:
A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts
on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once
asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because
it is there.
Surely a very similar argument
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b.n. wrote:
Bruce Munro ha scritto:
A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts
on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once
asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because
it is there.
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, b.n. wrote:
Bruce Munro ha scritto:
A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts
on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once
asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because
it is there.
Ben Kelly wrote:
I ran into a similar problem when upgrading. It looked to me like the
SATA device configuration variables had been changed or renamed. This
caused me to lose all my SATA modules when I rebuilt. After I went in
and explicitly added the new SATA drivers into the config the
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
genkernel. I followed these steps:
Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point
to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5
zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6
genkernel all
After it successfully built, I
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
genkernel. I followed these steps:
In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx
including ide.
Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some other
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:20 -0600, Joe Menola wrote:
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
genkernel. I followed these steps:
In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx
Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx
including ide.
But only if you configure it so that libata handles the ide drives. I
believe that the default is to have pata handled by the IDE drivers
and sata by libata
--
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
genkernel. I followed these steps:
Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point
to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5
zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6
genkernel all
After
Joe Menola wrote:
In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx
including ide.
That is totally untrue . :( All of my machines are using kernel 2.6.19
and they all see the hard disks as /dev/hdx apart from the one that is
actually using SATA.
Neil
--
Due to this issue, Why someone have to upgrade his kernel from .18 to
.19, there are IMPORTANT reazon to do that?
I'm not computer professional, Gentoo is just a hobby for me, as well as
my desktop and laptop computer and also Gentoo never stop to works
without a clear reason as done by
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:29:39 -0600
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know why the
module names were changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19?
the developers probably do. anyway, you should make it a practice to
use make oldconfig probably as it's the reason the developers feel
Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. ha scritto:
Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel?
Basically, when you need to.
I lived with 2.6.16 until two weeks ago, and before 2.6.16 I lived with
2.6.12 much longer.
If you don't feel the need of a new kernel, I don't see any reason to
upgrade.
I usually upgrade when
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