From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:05:24 -0400 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Stefan Jeglinski Subject: Re: 2.6 hoses 2.4 on old-world? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Been running a 2.4 kernel on my PowerTowerPro for a long time. Over >the months I've tried building 2.6.x, and succeeded for the first >time last night with 2.6.8-rc1. sorry, that's rc4 I'm using. >Rebooted to the default 2.4 but I'm hosed: The first part of the boot >starts, and sometime shortly after I get to the yellow Welcome to >Yellowdog lettering, then I'm seeing a lot of "/dev/null, read-only >file system" messages, The problem is that something overwrote /dev/null as a regular file, and the errors leading to boot failure were of the type "bad file descriptor." I remounted rw, deleted /dev/null, and recreated it. I can now boot back into 2.4. Question remains - is there something about 2.6 on old-world systems? Is is not safe? Unstable? (I still haven't figured out why I lose video with 2.6). Steps: make menuconfig (do some config) make make modules_install reboot I admit to being somewhat confused, this is cleaner but less informative than the 2.4 build procedure. BTW depmod give me lots of unresolved symbols, mostly related to sound. Stefan Jeglinski ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/