From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: COMPILING AND CONFIGURING A NEW KERNEL. Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:11:16 -0700 Message-ID: <1175994676.2359.1183513514@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> <1175817921.18400.1183285196@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1175909205.905.1183425104@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1175931932.27274.1183445262@webmail.messagingengine.com> <13183.1175965022@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Ignatich" , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Return-path: Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:37890 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284AbXDHBLQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:11:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13183.1175965022@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > It is *highly* recommended that you change the kernel identifier at > least slightly, so that you can install '2.6.20-1.local' without > overlaying > the vendor-supplied 2.6.20-1 kernel. Among other things, this lets you > boot back to the equivalent code level in the vendor kernel, > so you can figure > out if it's your .config file that's broken, or if you hit a bug > upggrading from 2.6.19-10 to 2.6.20-1. I agree. I think your advice is *highly* recommended. I had this problem once after forcing an upgrade, which removed the working kernel. I just booted the kernel and stuff, from another partition. John. -- johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be