From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org([63.224.68.2]) (2888 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:53:45 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA5MrhL14665 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:53:43 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:53:42 -0700 (MST) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk In-Reply-To: <004601c0475e$d54d8860$3aa50e18@muskgn1.mi.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: So there's a defect in the redhat 6.2 CD's because you can't use the install kernel to run the system. Very interesting logic indeed!! Brent: send me your phone number or call me at the number at the top of this message and I'll talk you through compiling a new kernel. Bill in Denver On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Chris Schulte wrote: > This sounds like a similar problem I had, the only difference being that I > was unable to completely make a new kernel. I'm thinking there's a bug in > 6.2's software. Maybe they have shipped bad cd's. As a result, the $80 I > spent on Redhat is more or less used as an expensive manual for commands. > If I were you, I'd go back to zipspeak for the time being. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brent Harding" > To: > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:37 PM > Subject: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to > work properly when copied in from the bootdisk > > > > I was installing rh 6.2 yesterday from a CD I got from cheapbytes.com. I > > got the thing installed all the way, and it rebooted. When linux loaded it > > didn't come talking. The keymap fails to load. When I got in and replaced > > the kernel with that found on the boot disk, and rebooted, I got speech > but > > tons of errors, and ppp gave error can't open ppp0, error 4. Loading the > > module gives unresolved symbols. I still have zipspeak around here yet, > how > > should I fix this so things come up like they should? How do I change the > > default operating system to boot, as lilo put linux first, is there a cut > > and paste console utility to do this? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >