posted Thursday, March 18th, 2004
Hooray! Got everything working (that I know of) in the new kernel.
m13b@linux:~$ uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.4 #3 SMP Thu Mar 18 10:01:52 EST 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Looks like I was missing the kernel module for my network card before. Oops.
Very nice. Unfortunately, I got it done so early in the day [...]
posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
OK, now it boots in 2.6.4. w00p!
But the damn network card dissapeared. Boo! Enough of this for today, I’ll try again later.
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posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
OK, got the computer to boot back into the old kernel, but decided to go ahead and recomplile the kernel with ReiserFS in instead of just as a module. Cover all my bases. Hopefully I’ll be able to give it another shot before the end of the day.
Laura’s going for The Big ChopTM [...]
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posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
Whoops.
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda5
Crap, I’m such an idiot. Pretty sure it’s a LILO thing, because it’s the one thing that I wasn’t 100% about. To paraphrase Joe from Reservoir Dogs, I should have my head examined for going forward without being 100%. Actually, it could be [...]
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posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
Right now, I’m waiting on a new Linux kernel for one of the Slackware boxes at work. I don’t have a lot of experience with kernel compiling, so I thought I’d take the time and compile a fresh copy of 2.6.4 for this machine. If it doesn’t work, no harm, it might actually [...]
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