Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:21, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Another possibility is bug 142916. This resulted in one of my machines > > becoming non-bootable. > > Interesting. > > I complained loudly about a similar problem ages ago, when > I ins

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-20 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > Another possibility is bug 142916. This resulted in one of my machines > becoming non-bootable. Interesting. I complained loudly about a similar problem ages ago, when I installed a broken version of libc6 without ldconfig, and it

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:40, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 13:31]: > > > Did the initrd load at all? If it did then it could be a bug in > > > initrd-tools. Please show me the boot messages. > > an other reason for failiour was that the space in the /boot > pa

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 13:31]: > > Did the initrd load at all? If it did then it could be a bug in > > initrd-tools. Please show me the boot messages. an other reason for failiour was that the space in the /boot partion was used up. I made my boot partition just big enough fo

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:47, Herbert Xu wrote: > Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No Disk > > The old kernel was handcrafted. The new one makes an initial RAM disk > > and loads the modules mentioned in /etc/modules. Of course, the disk > > driver had been compiled in before. I'm not su

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No Disk > The old kernel was handcrafted. The new one makes an initial RAM disk > and loads the modules mentioned in /etc/modules. Of course, the disk > driver had been compiled in before. I'm not sure what to do about this. > kernel-image _could_ have

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Michael Piefel wrote on Thu Apr 18, 2002 um 03:32:59PM: > The Crash > Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosi

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 19/04/2002 à 09:57, Michael Piefel a écrit : > He just went for the best: 686. It seems that one doesn't work on k6 > anymore. That one wasn't ever meant for k6, which is not a 686 cpu. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 18.04.02 um 16:21:55 schrieb Bob Nielsen: > > > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > > > However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosing > > 386, 486, and 586 kernels work fine on a K6. When in doubt use a 386 > > kernel, > > it'll

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 19.04.02 um 00:51:24 schrieb Josip Rodin: > > The old kernel was handcrafted. > he chose to trash all that and instead follow some random > newbie instructions? :) Well, there was a time when I compiled all my kernels myself, but then one day I got intrigued by our high-quality

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Martijn van [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:50:42 +1000: > The solution to this is to stuff all your own aliases under something like > /etc/modules/mine or something like that. Then they will never been > overwritten (except if a package named "mine" decides it needs some modules > :) >

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > No Net > The appropriate alias for eth0 was missing. This is a case of getting > tired with all those "config file was changed by you or a script" > messages when very often you are sure that you didn't touch it. In this > case, a

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: > > The Crash > > Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install > > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > > However, the s

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > The guide recommends to install a new kernel with: >apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > > The old kernel was handcrafted. Okay, so this person had a nice tailored kernel done, and instead of simply upgrading

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: > The Crash > Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosing 386, 486, and