Re: 2.4 Kernel Upgrade
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
>
>> Well, I finally got my 2.4 kernel to compile, using BenH's tree, rsync'd
>> and all. But then try to boot using it? Didn't work. What sorts of
>> details do I need to provide? Are there any "gotchas" I should know
>> about?
>
> How far do you get? Where exactly does it die?
>
Well, it seems to boot up, but I think it then hits some kind of loop,
since it puts the same message up over and over...I don't think it gets
as far as mounting any partitions, because when I reverted back to my
(working) 2.2.18 kernel, I get no fsck messages...
<snip>
>
>> .... Currently I've got the extra
>> arguments set at video=tdfx:1024x768-8@60, and I compiled 3dfx into the
>> 2.4 kernel.
>
> You should be able to get away w/ video=1024x768-8@60
I did this, but it didn't work. All blank...
>
>> When I start up with this setting (using the 2.4), I get the
>> most interesting color scheme, and I can't read any of the console
>> messages. If I remove the arguments, I get a completely blank screen
>> (and therefore I can't read the console, either :-)
>
> Can you get in remotely and see how it's doing? tdfxfb could have
> issues once again on PPC machines..
You mean like a zterm from another machine? What would be the args to
put so that I could see the output?
Thanks for the help!
Russell
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