Hi,
Cool.. I'll take a look at the 2.2.18 kernel. I think
you are right about the ide and scsi stuff.. I will
next try to build a kernel with no ide support other
than the floppy drive and see what happens for kicks.
If we end up having to make config files for the
different box's, I could help out with a few since I
have two different alphas at home and several at work.
-Octave
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> > These are the exact problems that I've been
> running into with trying to
> > make a generic kernel for slack. I have not had
> any luck with it as of
> > yet. I hope we don't have to make box specific
> kernels for the install.
> > That would suck.. but seeing how there are
> issues.. who knows. I have
> > emailed the aboot people about the problems with
> the newer compressed
> > kernels. Question... when you get a Kernel Oops..
> is it right when an
> > IDE device is detected... like a CDROM?
>
> Perhaps there is a bug with the IDE detection code
> under 2.2.17? That
> would not only affect machine with IDE devices, but
> those without as well.
> I understand that a whole lot of work has gone into
> the 2.2.18pre kernels,
> so maybe they have fixed some of these issues.
>
> Try downloading the latest 2.2.18pre kernel and
> building that with the
> generic .config file. If that doesn't work, then
> it's probably not an
> issue with a specific kernel version. My next bet
> would be to try
> removing support for IDE devices (if you can) and
> attempting to boot that.
>
> If we have to make machine-specific kernels, that's
> not too bad a thing.
> All I need is the proper directory structure under
> /kernels and a .config
> file. We have scripts to automatically build all
> that stuff :)
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
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