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* 2.4.13 Kernel Woes
@  Steve Holmes
   ` Tony Baechler
   ` Kirk Wood
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Steve Holmes @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Has anyone experienced any problems with the 2.4.13 kernel? I will list
out the steps I took today and explain what went wrong.
1. Untarred a 2.4.9 kernel source I had here to start with.
2. placed all the patches: 2.4.10, 11, 12 and 13 into /usr/src directory.
3. Ran linux/scripts/patch-kernel; so far, so good - all patches took.
4. Had latest version of speakup 1.00 ready to go in its appropriate
directory under /usr/src and ran ./install from inside there - went fine.
5. Did a "make oldconfig" with the .config file I previously used for a
successful 2.4.12 compile.
6. I did get prompted for speech related info again; thought that info
would have stuck from previous configuration <HMMM>.
7. Did the usual make bzImage and make modules followed by modules_install
- no errors.
8. Placed the vmlinuz file and System.map in the usual places and ran
lilo. OK.
9. Rebooted the machine, got a lilo prompt like normal but when I chose
this kernel image, it hanged! I had to power down and restart to continue.
I never could get 2.4.13 to talk or do anything else.

I fell back to 2.4.12 kernel images I had on a floppy (Thank God) and my
machine is running fine.

Sorry for such a long winded thing here but am wondering why a simple
upgrade from 2.4.12 to 2.4.13 would cause such a problem?

I also noticed that System.map grew from 400K to over 600K and thus will
no longer fit on a floppy with the 900K + kernel. Thought that a bit odd
too.

Any ideas out there?



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* RE: 2.4.13 Kernel Woes
@  Dawes, Stephen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Steve,

I to have had similar problems building 2.4.13, but the good news is
that I finally beet that dead horse until I got it to work!  

No, you do not need to start from scratch!!!
Here is what I did, and it worked for me.  However, I will qualify, that
I still need to tweak a few things, but it is working.
I went to a compile of 2.4.9, which was part of my RedHat 7.2 install
and:
1.  cd into the /usr/src/linux/config directory
2. cp <config file> /usr/src/linux-2.4.13/.config 
<config file> is the linux-2.4.x-i<architecture>.config  <architecture
is the i386 i486 i586 i686... processor class of your> machine>
<I am using /usr/src/linux-2.4.13 as a generic path, use what ever you
have named the 2.4.13 directory>
3. make oldconfig <and answer any questions that need answering>
4. make menuconfig to make any necessary fine tuning.
5. do a make oldconfig again.  There are those who believe that is not
necessary, but it eliminates any problems that maybe caused by make
menuconfig, and I have encountered this problem in the past, and so my
caution.
6.  make dep --> and the rest of the compiling steps, and you are off to
the races.

good luck!

Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
MailTo:  sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca 




-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Oliver [mailto:shauno@goanna.net.au]
Sent: 2001 November 05 5:42 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: 2.4.13 Kernel Woes


more than likely Steve from what I've seen on the list here.
On Mon, 5 Nov
2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> But apparently make oldconfig is not yielding the desired results with
> 2.4.13. On two different machines now, the .config used for previous
> compiles of 2.4.12 were passed into 13 with oldconfig and came up with
> dead kernels on both machines here. When I heard other comments about
> configs being reset or something, makes me wonder if I need to do the
> whole bloody make config from scratch to get better results.
> 
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Georgina wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Surely there's nothing stopping you copying your config file into
the linux
> > directory after the mrproper and running your old config.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Steve Holmes
> > Sent: 04 November 2001 15:34
> > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: RE: 2.4.13 Kernel Woes
> >
> >
> > make mrproper cleans things up really well but with a freshly
patched
> > kernel source tree that shouldn't be necessary unless you have some
bad
> > patches or something.  But the thought of running through make
config all
> > over again <yuck>! That is my least favorite part of kernel
compiles. I
> > was really getting to love "make oldconfig":).
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Georgina wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm no expert but I thought that you also needed to do a make
mrproper
> > after
> > > applying those patches.
> > >
> > > Gena
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
> > > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Wood
> > > Sent: 04 November 2001 12:52
> > > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > Subject: Re: 2.4.13 Kernel Woes
> > >
> > >
> > > I would suggest that you make sure you have the speakup for the
latest
> > > kernel series first. As for the configuration people mention, it
could be
> > > a result of the kernel changes that have mandated Kirk R make
small
> > > changes in Speakup.
> > >
> > > I would also consider running a whole new config if the makeold
config
> > > seemed to give unpredictable results and then had some failure.
> > >
> > > =======
> > > Kirk Wood
> > > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> > >
> > > "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> > > a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be
decisive."
> > > 	- President George Bush
> > >
> > >
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-- 
Shaun Oliver.

"We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not
going
to discuss it with our staff."
email: shauno@goanna.net.au
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