Re: Complete kernel crash [Was: Re: dpkg failure trying to changeownership of a symlink ...]

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

> 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".... :)

check your date in the hardware, and also make sure that the system knows
how your date is set... there are often multiple methods and possible
offsets.

elijah