Re: on booting 2.4.0-test7: one more time, oldconfig broken!
Umm...I don't think it's fair to say it's broken. You need to remember
that there are a whole host of different options between 2.2 and 2.4 and
I'm not sure any ever guaranteed that make oldconfig would work across
major revisions like that.
I saw a posting somewhere saying that sound in 2.4 is just plain broken,
regardless of arch, so YMMV.
--rdp
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, James D. Freels wrote:
>
> 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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Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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