On Sunday 26 May 2002 03:46 pm, you wrote:
> > I just started using the 2.4.18 kernel from > > ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ > > (...) > > > Reboot was OK except init hung instead of reading /etc/inittab. > > I rebuilt the same version on init (2.78) from src, no changes to > > src and > > no changes to the Makefile and it worked fine. > > The rebuilt one works on the old kernel 2.4.14 too. > > The sizes of the two executables are a bit confusing though: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30632 May 26 19:08 init.new > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 502540 Oct 29 2001 init.orig > > This has been discused here and other places also. If you use kernel > 2.4.18, you will have problems running static binaries (like SuSE's > defaul init :). Use 2.4.18-rc4, or some .19-pre kernels. instead. Kernel 2.4.18 with the 2.4.19-pre8 patch compiles and seems to work fine for sparc64 -- George Auch | SuSE Linux 7.3 for SPARC Linux ns1 2.4.19-pre8 #1 SMP Wed May 22 10:00:09 EDT 2002 sparc64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
