Re: [ILUG] Booting test kernels

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain itg.ie)
Date: Tue 11 Jul 2000 - 13:38:53 IST


On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Dave Burke wrote:

> Has anyone successfully booted a 2.4.0-testX kernel? I've been trying for
> the past couple of hours and both 2.4.0-test2 + test3 both die when
> entering run level 3 on my machine.
>

test2 has some dreadful ide problems iirc. don't use it.

> I managed to apply one of the timer.c patches and successfully compiled
> test3 this morning at the third attempt, but it's dying as soon as it
> enters run level 3 as well.
>
> If no one has gotten these to work, what 2.4.0-X kernels _should_ work? My
> local box is a vanilla RH6.2 install, so as far as I know, I do have the
> correct version of gcc to compile a new kernel successfully. Just want to
> play with some of the new features and evaluate them a bit....
>

test3-pre7 works fine. test3-pre9 is out now.

> Cheers,
> Dave
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