Re: Complete kernel crash [Was: Re: dpkg failure trying to changeownership of a symlink ...]
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, elijah wright wrote:
> > My kernel was ancient: 2.0.34. So I grabbed the source for 2.2.17pre6
> > from the source directory, built it and rebooted - and got a complete and
> > utter crash.
> > I'm long out of practice. My milo is from kernel 2.0.30, which could be a
> > things, like the date is 1970, and I've been getting lots of messages
>
> i had similar problems with my alpha for a while. (couldn't boot new
> kernels from my 2.0.30 milo disk, which i'd had since i got the
> machine)... the fix was to reinstall and make it boot from SRM, "the way
> it should be".... :)
Ah, thanks.
I don't have SRM, so I won't be able to do that. Do I just need a new
milo then, do you think?
If old milos can't boot new kernels, can new milos boot old kernels? ...
Cheers,
Nikhil.
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