DISCUSSION: Slackware - Easy 2.6 kernel from Install disc #2
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hi there..
months ago I installed 2.6.10 kernel in my slack 10.1 following your recipe, and every was fine, so I "close the chapter" of the kernel upgrade. But now I'm wondering: what are the advantages and disvantages between compiling and not-compiling the kernel, like I did? the advantages maybe are obvious, but what's about the disvantages? regards. |
disadvantages might be that your kernel doesn't work a.k.a kernel panic
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sorry, I don't get it..
what's that "kernel panic" stuff about? |
"kernel panic" is basically when your computer poops in its pants and can't boot up. I ran into this while following the instructions to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel. My lilo was on a floppy, so I could not change it. Then I put lilo on MBR and my new shiny 2.6 kernel booted. So, if you run into kernel panic, make sure your lilo.conf is working and it's on MBR.
George |
Two questions(SLACK 10.2, test26.s):
1) In the README.initrd file, there is also a mention of installpkg mkinitrd I do not see an mkinitrd.tgz, at least not in the second CD Do we really need to install it? 2) I have a SCSI system and all fs s are reiser except boot which is ext2 How do I find out how to make an initrd for such a system? I mean throughout the installation I specified twice I want test26.s, and uname -r says 2.6.13 Are the SCSI modules already installed and in any case, how do I really make a proper initrd? Actually, I want to be able to decide at lilo time whether to boot the 2;.6 or 2.4.31 kernels. How do I do that? I'm really confused with the installation that does ot really install 2.6.13 and it's not clear to me if it installed the SCSI and reiser modules or not. But it does not look like it installed 2.4.31 either because uname says 2.6.13! |
what happened to this discussion/tutorial?
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as for scsi, i'm not sure about that i'm afraid, although the main 2.6 kernel option includes scsi support so it might be worth giving it a shot and seeing what happens -- ie you might not need an initrd at all. Quote:
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pretty good:)
but I can't find the package alsa-drivers-*.tgz in the linux-2.6.* directory. I just installed slackware. Maybe this needs a little update. Greetings |
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