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[heroron@xxxxxxxxx (Ron Heron)]

Right,

I tried compiling the 2.2.16 from kernelhq.  I just
couldn't get it to work well.  I could boot, but it
kept hosing up (hard locks) probably due to my abit
mobo with the hpt controllers.  The SuSE kernel works
well.  My beef was why wouldn't a stock kernel work. 
Well it probably would have, if I had compiled it like
the suse kernel, and used modules instead of puting
into the kernel.  But, I was informed by another
poster that the 2.2.16 with the support built into the
kernel would be more stable with the BP6.  I still get
hard locks.  I intend to try and play with the kernel
some more over the weekend.  I want to try the Suse
kernel, get it stable, then recompile with built-in
support for the drivers.  But, if I may ask, Is there
an initrd issue with on-board UDMA-66 controllers?  I
know that ide support is built in, so initrd doesn't
need to preload those.  But, doesn't linux tread the
udma-66 and 100's the same as scsi?  In this case, I
may have been hosed, as I didn't use the mk_initrd
while compiling.  

Any thoughts appreciated... Ron

--- Michael Hasenstein <mha@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ron Heron wrote:
> ...
> > BTW: my kernel issue was that the source package
> from
> > kernelhq wouldn't work, not the binary version.
> > opposite of what you said, the binary works.
> 
> The kernel from ftp.kernel.org WILL work, unless you
> use features we
> added, like LVM or ReiserFS.
> 
> Didn't you have some patch issues? That has nothing
> to do with the
> original kernel not running, because it DOES
> (compile, link and) run.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Hasenstein
> http://www.suse.de/~mha/
> SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg (Germany)
> SuSE Inc., Oakland, California (US)

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