Re: tlug: TurboLinux 2.0J and kernel-2.1?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Ken Harada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed TurboLinux to my Chandra (Hitachi Prius
> 210T13E - Pentium MMX133, 40MB RAM, 1GB HDD - 550 for Linux)
> four times today.
> 
> Right after the installation is complete, I tried to change
> the kernel to 2.1.105 and/or 2.1.117 - everytime the kernel
> compile went ok, (b)zImage copied to /boot/vmlinuz-whatever,
> lilo.conf changed, lilo executed ok.
> 
> Now, when I reboot with the new kernel, I cannot login!
> I cannot shutdown by CTRL-ALT-DEL either - system says
> "cannot execute binary".  I switched off and on, and
> tried to reboot with the original 2.0.33 kernel - now,
> "kernel panic - cannot mount /dev/hda6".
> 
> Is the TLJ kernel a special one which I cannot make from the
> kernel source obtained from ftp.kernel.org?

It has some patches in it, but nothing that would change the binary format
specification or anything like that :) - install the kernel .src.rpm from
the 2nd TLJ CD-ROM and then look at the .spec file, and you can see how
the TL kernel is being built.

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               <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)
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