[Sussex] Kernel 2.5.47 Problems

[Geoff Teale]

Morning,


Let's start the new week with some problems..

Yesterday I deicded to pull the kernel 2.5.47 source for a little play
around.

Two problems I've found.

1. If you do a nice'd compile of the kernel at the same time as playing the
commercial version of tuxracer and sylpheed decides to check for mail whilst
you are playing then there is the occasional posibility of tuxracer
suffering a segfault ;)   Not sure that's really going to affect many
people.

2. After compilation had finished I copied the bzImage to
/boot/bzImage_2_5_47 and vi'd /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the additional
kernel image.

During reboot I selected the kernel 2.5.47 image from the GRUB menu and was
almost instantly plunged into darkness.  There was no screen output, no disk
activity, nothing.

Does anyone have any clues as to what might be happening?  The image I'd
compiled didn't have anything exceptional compiled in (in fact the only
major difference between the options I used for my 2.5.47 and my 2.4.19
kernels was ALSA support for intel8x0).  Thinking about it ALSA might well
be at fault here as it doesn't seem to get on at all well with GCC 3.2.
However I am concerned that there is absolutely no output on screen.
Usually an ALSA failure would happen well into the boot process.

Ho-hum...

-- 
GJT
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk




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