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Topic: 2.4.26 vs. 2.4.29 ???, somebody else must be seeing this!

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polypagan

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Posted: April 06 2005,00:15

CD boots nicely with vga=normal on my eMachine w/64MB. All three of my eth adapters work fine. When I do a HD-install, system starts up and complains it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.29/... which is, indeed, correct. There is however a 2.4.26! I thought just copying that with .29 would fix, but then modprobe fails! No net! what's up? I cannot be the only newbie seeing this.

Help!

Thanks in advance,
polypagan@yahoo.com

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eMachines -Dell Inspiron 1100 - IBM ThinkPad 560
366 MHz Celeron - 2.4 GHz celeron - 132 MHz Pentium
64 MB - 512 MB - 24 MB
3.5 G - 700 MB part. - 2 G
DVD-ROM - CDRW/DVD - scsi CD
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tronik

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Posted: April 06 2005,06:05

You do a hdinstall and it complains about 2.4.29 modules? we dont use a 2.4.29 kernel. so the only modules you should have when you do a new hdinstall is 2.4.26...

And no, kernel modules contain symbols which make sure they're loaded with the kernel version they're made for.

So, there must be something you're not telling us? Are you trying to install/compile 2.4.29 kernel?

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polypagan

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Posted: April 06 2005,21:50

Thanks for your response.

Of course there is a great deal I have not (yet) told you.

No, I am too much of a newbie to undertake compiling a kernel just yet. So, that's not it.

One major thing I didn't mention is that I have set up a triple booting situation with Lilo: Win98, Slackware 10.1 and DSL. Is that where the 2.4.29 confusion comes from? Seems unlikely, at least until I read your post. Maybe Lilo knows too much?

I can pull the drive with win & slack out of the machine and make the DSL hd primary master. then do a new mklilo...

worth a try...

TFTH

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eMachines -Dell Inspiron 1100 - IBM ThinkPad 560
366 MHz Celeron - 2.4 GHz celeron - 132 MHz Pentium
64 MB - 512 MB - 24 MB
3.5 G - 700 MB part. - 2 G
DVD-ROM - CDRW/DVD - scsi CD
eth0,1 - eth0, wlan0 - eth0=10baseT
Slackware 1o.x - DamnSmall 1.5 HD - DamnSmall 1.4 HD

mikshaw

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Posted: April 07 2005,01:08

well slackware 10.1 does use the 2.4.29 kernel, so it's a possibility that lilo has its wires crossed. Maybe you've got initrd and kernel mixed up between the distros. It shouldn't require reinstallation or pulling drives if that's the case....you can edit lilo.conf and run lilo to update.

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polypagan

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Posted: April 07 2005,21:56

Thank you both for useful and though-provoking comments.

Juggling drives didn't work well -- mostly because systems expect drives/partitions to be where they left them... also no 'vga=normal' line in the mkliloboot output, so my crappy (Optiquest 900S) monitor goes nuts...

I looked at lilo.conf, and sure enuf, I had (in ignorance) put the line image=vmlinuz (rather than linux24) in both sections. Ahah! that has to be it! Right? Wrong.

When I choose to boot DSL I still see:
<tons of stuff>
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.29
<lots of error messages as modprobes fail>
login: (and it works nicely, except for missing hardware)

I should say I am using Slack to write the lilo, just cause it seems easier. I definitely don't understand every line in lilo.conf, or how entwined lilo is with what it boots.

I am (slowly) learning correct mount syntax to get the two systems to see each others filesystems...

Possibly (probably?) I am being too ambitious. My idea was to be able to evaluate the two HD-based systems on the same hardware.

Hand-holding would be appreciated greatly.

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eMachines -Dell Inspiron 1100 - IBM ThinkPad 560
366 MHz Celeron - 2.4 GHz celeron - 132 MHz Pentium
64 MB - 512 MB - 24 MB
3.5 G - 700 MB part. - 2 G
DVD-ROM - CDRW/DVD - scsi CD
eth0,1 - eth0, wlan0 - eth0=10baseT
Slackware 1o.x - DamnSmall 1.5 HD - DamnSmall 1.4 HD

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