Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:52 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote:
> > > Leo,
> > >
> > > * Leo Spalteholz <leo@spalteholz.ca> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]:
> > > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel?
> > >
> > > I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my
> > > hardware) for 8 days on my workstation. It does a fair amount of
> > > http / php / mysql stuff, as well as handling my daily tasks. No
> > > problems (knock wood) so far, and it's interactivity during heavy
> > > disk usage is much better than 2.4.xx.
> > >
> > > Can't say anything about the Debian package or grub since I don't
> > > use either.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > > --
> > > Christopher S. Swingley email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu
> > > IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key
> > > at: University of Alaska Fairbanks
> > > www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/
> >
> > I've also been using 2.6.0-test1 since it was released and I have
> > had no problems with it.
>
> sounds good. It seems the debian package is a little borked for me..
> Its spits out a bunch of messages about /dev/root2 not being a device
> and then can't open /dev/console at which point it panics..
>
> Apparently devfs is a little confused. I'll read up on how to set that
> up properly..
>
> Can't wait to be running this kernel. It sounds very promising.
>
I posted a mini how to recently about compiling this kernel... you may want to
take a look. I prefer to compile and install by hand, I feel more in control.
It is really simple, and even more important, it teaches you a loot about
your system.
> ~leo
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