From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" Subject: Re: Kernel hangs on boot Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:30:23 -0700 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200204262230.g3QMUNq28719@bach.leonora.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:39:53 PDT." List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org "JC" == Jonathan Claxton writes: JC> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Gordon Gray wrote: JC> Ok.. two thingys... Gordon, Two more thingys... 1. Don't "rpm -U" kernels. "rpm -i" them. The former *removes* the old kernel, making it hard/impossible to recover if something goes wrong, goes wrong, goes wrong.... 2. I'm running 2.4.17 that I built from sources using the config for smp machines that's in the configs directory of Red Hat's version of the kernel. I.e. install the kernel-source-2.4.9-31 rpm and use /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-31/configs/kernel-2.4.9-i686-smp.config to configure a 2.4.17 kernel (gotten from kernel.org). (I didn't use 2.4.18 because VMware didn't work with it, but there's no reason I'm also running an ASUS CUV4X-DLS board with the lastest BIOS (1010) and without MPS 1.4 support. Works great. --- Vladimir -------- Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014