i had originally planned to delay testing of linux 2.4 until late this year. but i recently had an urge to try to do some video capture, and discovered if i want to capture at 640x480 i need linux 2.4 and V4L2. So since this is a fresh install i decided to try out 2.4......
what a horrible experience. firstly, i compiled my 2.4.5 kernel with "Athlon/Duron' support, and was promptly greeted with "Illegal Instruction" on e2fsck when i tried to boot the system. Kind of odd considering i have an athlon 1309mhz proc .. anyways i booted back to 2.2.19(good kernel..good kernel..) and recompiled for PPRO instead of athlon. this time it got farther, and begun to scan my raid(!) arrays. since the arrays were stopped clean i didn't understand why it was doing this. i have /usr and /var on raid1 and i have /space on raid0. it took the next hour and a half to scan(don't know why it was only scanning at ~2MB/s while under linux 2.2 it scans at ~15MB/s). when i came back to the screen i saw tons of errors saying /dev/md0 md1 md2 no such device, can't scan the filesystems and dumped me to a prompt. i rebooted the system again into 2.2.19 again and everything was fine. honestly i expected linux 2.4's "updated" raid to have totally trashed my old raid drives(and no i don't want to use the new raid, ive been using the old raid for over 2 years without a single problem...ever) but it booted fine, the arrays were clean(although i think i should force a check just to be sure) was able to login to kdm and get my afterstep desktop, no glitches. PHEW. now can someone enlighten me as to what could of gone wrong? i expected since i was running woody a fairly smooth changeover to 2.4 with the exception of having to recompile my other modules like nvidia driver, vmware and bttv i had no idea id encounter such issues before even getting to a login prompt. this of course leaves a horrible taste in my mouth. im just glad 2.4 didn't trash my drives. even if it did i'd only lost a week of data luckily i decided to stop trusting the local machine due to an asus motherboard frying my filesystems a couple weeks ago(have since replaced it) and now save most of my data directly to NFS shares on my main server. the installation of woody is about a week old... ohwell....i guess this experience just makes me more glad that linux 2.2 is solid. my system: woody(1 week old) athlon 1300mhz 768mb sdram tyan KT133A-based motherboard(forgot the part#) dual IBM 20GB ide drives promise ata100 controller(non raid) adaptec aha2940UW scsi 4x8x CD-R (SCSI) Nvidia Geforce2 MX 200 (64MB) AGP Intel eepro100 Soundblaster PCI 128 Hauppauge WinTV Go!(bt848 i believe) 450watt PC Power & Cooling power supply ~650watt (1100VA) UPS Linux 2.2.19(ide patch, nvidia kernel drivers, bttv drivers) nate
