On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:56:17PM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
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 question which pops into my mind is this: Does the util-linux source package install by default into /usr/local? If so, that could be a problem.
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.
Did you upgrade modutils?
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
I'm not sure what bzlilo does. But if it replaces the the current kernel image in the lilo configuration, that's bad. It's better to do
make dep bzImage modules modules_install and edit /etc/lilo.conf by hand, preserving the current images as boot options.
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.
Mark's response here is completely correct. When you decide to upgrade packages from source, you're somewhat on your own. This has never stopped me. One of the really good things about SuSE is that its build environment is NOT broken. So you can build packages from source, usually with a minimum of fuss. -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html