Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:
Well
It didn't work
The new kernal with the new tools booted, couldn't load any modules and then gave me a login prompt. The prompt authenicated me, and then dumped me back into a login prompt.....why - I have no idea. /var/log/messages said nothing.
Did you install the util-linux? How did you configure it. The modules thing could be because the 2.4+ kernel Makefile removes all the exsisting modules first. So if you had say alsa installed by doing the make_isntall you wiped out the alsa modules and would have to reinstall them. That holds true for any modules that were there before the make modules_isntall. Your login problem sounds like you didn't configure the util-linux correctly or didn't install them (not sure).
This is what sucks about suse. Why should upgradiong the kernel be so damn hard.
make dep make bzlilo make modules make modules_install
FINISH
If the kernel says I need new utils-linux .... document on the site how to do this damn upgrade!!
This has nothing to do with SuSE. If you want to upgrade a kernel you should READ the doc in /usr/src/linux/Documentation before you start. Upgrading a kernel is the same no matter where you got it from. The documentation is again in /usr/src/linux/Documentation. See the changes file. It tells you even where to get whats required. Any package you have to upgrade first will have it's own documentation read it too. Regards Mark
Ruben