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Distribution: Mandrake, Xandros, and Debian 3.0 (Woody) as a proxy
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Originally posted by crashmeister Forget it.
That's pretty short. Care to explain more throughly? How about offer an alternative instead of just saying throw-up your hands and forget it. I WANT the 2.4 kernel, I want it because I want the PPPoE feature built-into it, not having to deal with what I've had to deal with 2.2.x for far too long.
I had that error message on my box for as long as I use debian.It came up after I switched from kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.16.I did want to check into it but the question came up on the debian mailing list and all it is about is that there is no ksymoops on the system.If it ain't there the kernel can't find it.From the info I gathered - not a lot actually - it is needed for kernel debugging.Since I am not a kernel developer I don't need it.
Distribution: Mandrake, Xandros, and Debian 3.0 (Woody) as a proxy
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Originally posted by crashmeister I had that error message on my box for as long as I use debian.It came up after I switched from kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.16.I did want to check into it but the question came up on the debian mailing list and all it is about is that there is no ksymoops on the system.If it ain't there the kernel can't find it.From the info I gathered - not a lot actually - it is needed for kernel debugging.Since I am not a kernel developer I don't need it.
So you went back to 2.2.19 kernel, or what? If I used the kernel-package tools and built my own kernel (I don't have any 'crazy hardware' what I have seems to be supported well by the 2.4.18bf kernel, would that be the way to go if I wanted to get away from the 2.4.18bf kernel, or are there no drawbacks to running the 2.4.18bf kernel?
No - I didn't do anything.I always do a net install with whatever kernel pops up there - you never know since netinstall is not really supported by debian.Then I compile my kernel - can't use deb's since my shitty onboard graphics wouldn't do much of 3d acceleration on a standard kernel.After that the errror message comes up - never had a problem with it.Do you got any trouble related to this error message?
BTW - if I build other distro's - like gentoo - that require that you compile your kernel I don't get that message at all.
Distribution: Mandrake, Xandros, and Debian 3.0 (Woody) as a proxy
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Originally posted by mace i went from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 last night - my first time compiling. didn't have any problems. did it to get my forking sound card to work.
but i've got dsl and use synaptic for all my apt-getting needs
Anyone care to share the steps? Do you start with an stock config, or use some other config? Where do you get the ocnfig if from somewhere else? I've never had a lot of luck compiling without starting with an config I know has produced an working kernel.
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