Have you ever considered compiling a kernel yourself? :)
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
> Hello all, I upgraded my RH 7.0 machine's kernel from 2.2.16-22 to 2.2.17-14
> using binary RPMs from RH. However, since doing that, I have not been able
> to run mkinitrd, it always complains "all loopback devices are in use".
> Following suggestions from this list, I tried modprobe loop but it says
> "Can't locate module loop". Unfortunately, I did an upgrade, not a install,
> with the binary RPMs. However, I was lucky enough to have made a boot
> floppy that I am now using to boot the machine.
>
> Having failed with the kernel upgrade, I am now trying to compile the
> sources for the 2.2.17-14 kernel. I installed the sources from the kernel
> source RPMs. However, whenever I try to run make menuconfig, it bombs with
> the following error
>
> "dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2"
>
> I am pretty sure that my system is fully patched as far as non-kernel things
> go, since I use RH's up2date on a weekly basis. Could anyone offer any
> suggestions as to what might be wrong with:
>
> 1) mkinitrd bombing with the loopback device error.
>
> 2) What am I missing in getting make menuconfig to run?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> --Moby
>
>
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