On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Matthew Saltzman spewed into the bitstream:
MS>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MS>
MS>>I installed the rawhide RPM's for the 2.4.0 kernel and XFree86-4.0.2-0.2
MS>>into a fully updated RH7.0 machine and everything just rocks... there
MS>
MS>So just follow the usual instructions for upgrading XFree and kernel
MS>RPMs? Cool!
MS>
MS>>was a minor issue with the kernel... I run and boot off of IDE disks...
MS>>The only SCSI is simulated so that my cd-burner will work... On the
MS>>first 2.4 boot-up after install I got a vfs kernel panic. I fixed it by
MS>>running mkinitrd and all is well! I suppose I could find and fix the
MS>>problem but a ramdisk is simple and doesn't bother me as a fix! :-)
MS>
MS>This is SOP for RH production kernels. The SCSI controller driver is
MS>modular in the production kernels and in order for them to load properly
MS>when booting SCSI, the ramdisk is required to make the drivers available
MS>to the boot code. Fixing the problem involves a kernel recompile to
MS>turn off or unmodularize SCSI support as appropriate. If SCSI support
MS>is compiled in or left out, then no ramdisk is needed.
Yeah, I know, but the machine is not booting off of that device and it
was not required with 2.2.16. Something is different but frankly, I
don't care enough to go find out what it is... :-)
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