Re: [Sheflug] Installing Kernel Problem

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only kernel out of the 2.4.x range I have not successfully built is
2.4.12, in which the lp stuff failed miserably. Other than that, its
been total success!

Unfortunately my machine got wiped out by the powers that be and I'm
currently sitting on 2.2.19 :(

Craig

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 22:16, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > I've also seen build problems with 2.4.14 here, but I'm not convinced
> > 2.4.15 is going to be any better - I haven't managed to get any of the
> > 2.4.15-pre versions to compile yet :(
> > 
> 
> 2.4.15-pre1 built ... and then OOPs'd then rebooted came back, and an hour or 
> two later, ping, telnet, ftp, traceroute, ssh all decided to cause a "Memory 
> Fault" on execution ... thus I thought networking were broke, but that 
> Mozilla and licq worked.
> 
> I'm back on 2.4.13 now ... oh and I was wrong about the other broken kernel 
> ... I have a patch for 2.4.12 that fixes parport.c ... someone got a #define 
> wrong and promptly broke the module so it would build.
> 
> 2.4.15 /should/ in theory have fixed most of the problems as Linus is handing 
> 2.4 over, not to AC, but to Marcel (I think it was) to do the maintenance 
> after 2.4.15's been released, so expect 2.5 to open in the not too distant 
> future.
> 
> Chris...
> 
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