-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Shoemaker wrote: | I have an 8.2 customer in mandrakeexpert asking this | question. Does anyone know of this 'Mandrake-acknowledged | problem' or the answer to his question, 'is this problem | fixed in distro 9.0'? Thanks. | | ----quoted text below---- | | My homePC is a Gateway with Athlon 650. The | motherboard model is Kadoka. There is a | Mandrake-acknowledged problem with all 8.x distros | using the 2.4.x kernel, involving this board - | Mandrake have stated explicitly that it will not | run (basically it installs OK then hangs at INIT | whatever you do). I therefore had to revert to | the 2.2.x kernel, which in turn meant that some of | my more advanced hardware wouldn't run as it | required the 2.4.x kernel. I have therefore been | running SuSE instead, but would rather run | Mandrake. Question - is this problem fixed in | distro 9.0? I really hope so - Mandrake is | smashing and does the job on my work machine. | | -----end quoted text----- |
Easiest way would probably be for you to download the latest cooker kernel-2.4.19-*, plug it into your SUSE machine, and see if you can get into the bootup (as SUSE and Mandrake use different kernel patches, etc, a bunch of failed messages are fine during bootup as long as your machine actually does boot up). If this is the case, you are in good shape for 9.0, or if you really can't wait, you could install 8.2 and then use the rescue mode on the cdrom to upgrade the kernel with the following. Mount your partitions under /mnt Go to console #chroot /mnt rpm -i path/to/kernel-2.4.19* cat /etc/lilo.conf (just to make sure you have the two kernel entries, should be a similar step for SUSE test stage earlier) /sbin/lilo Assuming you don't get any strange error messages, reboot and you will likely get in. Alternatively, you might not know this, but you could just run the SUSE kernel on Mandrake :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2AJxIACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1PINwCcCyDmsTLqIHXrCglRoGvumxb9 6h4AnjQXky4E6yY3Rnr8PuJjz/KMF1m2 =sz5W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
