Re: on booting 2.4.0-test7: one more time, oldconfig broken!
Apparently "make oldconfig" is broken for the alpha. I went back and
examined the resulting .config and compared to the 2.2.16 .config and
there were at least 3 major areas that were not configured correctly:
1) the SRM dependence: I manually turned this back on so I can boot
from SRM
2) the PCI ethernet card dependence: I manually turned this back on
and my ehernet card was enabled from the previous .config
3) the MSS sound card dependence: there is no place to specify the
I/O, IRQ, dma, etc. So sound was broken.
This time I built a PC164 kernel that booted successfully and
everthing but sound appeared to work (including ethernet). However,
it only took a few minutes of operation before the system hung on what
appeared to be scsi problem. I had to perform a hard reboot. Upon
reboot to my stable 2.2.16 kernel, all filesystems were checked with
one error fix.
So, I think I will stop the experimentation for now. I would like to
hear about some successes and any advice.
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