Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Álvaro A. Novo <novo@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 January 2001 14:27, Randy Rathbun wrote:
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> Maybe I have something goofed up, but 2.4.0 is giving me some troubles and
> I am unsure what to do as this is the first time I have ever done a kernel
> upgrade.
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> Here is what I did:
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> 1. Went to 2.2.16.SuSE and ran xconfig and saved the config file to
> /usr/src.
> 2. Went to 2.4 and ran xconfig and read in the config file, then built it,
> installed it, booted it.

Can't use .config from other kernel versions! I really mean it, read the 
README file that comes with the kernel, Linus did a splendid job writting it 
down -- it clarifies everything, including the modules part, which apparently 
you forgot to do 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'

Hope it helps,

Alvaro Novo

SuSE 6.4 -=- Kernel 2.4.0-prerelease -=- KDE 2.1.0-Beta1-0
  2:44pm  up 12:18,  3 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00