Andreas Jaeger wrote:
could you please be more specific why 2.4 kernel cannot be used with Suse 9.1? Similalry to original questioner I depend on openafs
Kernel 2.6 has a number of enhancements, especially in the networking and hotplugging area that are incompatible with the way it was done in 2.4. Most of our scripts only handle the enhanced 2.6 mode - and where they handle 2.4, they have not been tested. Support for both kernels is rather difficult to achieve and test if you want to really use 2.6.
and it's currently the only problem which prevents me from moving to Suse 9.1 on Opteron. I'm ready to get over the loss of hotplug, wireless, firewire etc. --
9.1 works fine on Opteron. What exactly is your problem that you need a 2.4 kernel?
Stable openafs doesn't support 2.6 kernels :-( I'm going to test cvs head of openafs, but it may be easier for me to change several startup scripts to support 2.4 kernels (as I wrote, target machine has one network card, no hotplug, no wireless, ...). -- Mirek Ruda