Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9(it was a fight but sucessful)

2001-09-19 Thread D. Hoyem
I would like to thank everyone that responded to this. After a couple of failures I am running kerel-2.4.9. What I wound up doing was to make xconfig and use the config-2.4.9-586 file that I had and change the usb from module to built in and everything seemd to work. No Kernel Panics so I'm upi

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:20:53PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Please, could someone explain step by step how I can get rid of initrd | stuff when compiling the 2.4.9. | | As I wrote in this thread I was able to build my own 2.4.9 kernel | using initrd and the related stuff. | | When using make m

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-17 Thread Vittorio
Please, could someone explain step by step how I can get rid of initrd stuff when compiling the 2.4.9. As I wrote in this thread I was able to build my own 2.4.9 kernel using initrd and the related stuff. When using make menuconfig what else should I disable beside initrd support under RAM di

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-17 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Sep, 2001 schwätzte csj so: > I do know that. But what are the advantages of having an initrd? From the > number of posts bitching about it I was under the impression it's quite > important There was a thread last week ( maybe the week before ) that covered pros and cons of using an initrd

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-17 Thread der.hans
Am 16. Sep, 2001 schwätzte dman so: > o adjust the initrd so that the USB modules are loaded during >boot (this is the advantage of having an initrd, unfortunately >I don't know how to do this) > > o while booted with your old kernel add > usb > keybdev >

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread csj
On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 08:23, dman wrote: > | Okay, can somebody please explain why I'm missing this initrd stuff (and > > If you didn't enable it in the kernel then you don't use an initrd. > If you enabled it then you need an initrd. > > | what I'm missing)? Why do I need to mkinitrd? I'm also

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:42:58AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 03:58, Vittorio wrote: | > Don, | > | > you should compile the USB keyboard support statically in the 2.4.9 | > kernel and not as a module (answer 'Y' and not 'M' when using 'make | > menuconfig'). | > | > Because compil

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:58:17AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: | Hi all | I have a PII 350 and recently upgraded to Woody. | Today I did a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-586 | kernel-headers-2.4.9-586 and no problems with the | install. I added initrd=/boot/initrd to lilo.conf and | then typed l

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread csj
On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 03:58, Vittorio wrote: > Don, > > you should compile the USB keyboard support statically in the 2.4.9 > kernel and not as a module (answer 'Y' and not 'M' when using 'make > menuconfig'). > > Because compiling the 2.4.9 kernel has been a pain in the neck to me > (with that d

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread Vittorio
Don, you should compile the USB keyboard support statically in the 2.4.9 kernel and not as a module (answer 'Y' and not 'M' when using 'make menuconfig'). Because compiling the 2.4.9 kernel has been a pain in the neck to me (with that damned initrd stuff) I'll sketch here the basic steps you shou