> 2. Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore (Brian Fahrlander) > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:24:51 -0500 > From: Brian Fahrlander <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore > One day 'yum update' offers me kernel-2.6.6-1.435. I reboot to it, > expecting to have to mess with the Nvidia drivers, but I never get that > far- instant reboot. No text, no explanation, just BEEP! and I see the > BIOS re-init. Very funny. > > So I stay with the old kernel, kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. A couple of > days or weeks go by. I think that 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 is a later release than 2.6.6-1.435? > > Today I was offered kernel-2.6.8-1.521. Instant reboot. > Questions: > 1. Is anyone ELSE having this glaring problem? Currently I am running 2.6.8-1.521 on a Dell 8200 with no apparent problems other than ntfs currently does not work. I've tried downloading the build scripts and creating the rpm on my own, but I still get a fault. > 2. What can I do to learn why *I* am having it? A hardware list would help, as would any messages in boot.log and messages. > 3. Is this thing going to keep happening? Hopefully not. I have a couple of tasks that I have to do every time I upgrade the kernel. 1. Rebuild NVidia driver 2. Install kernel-ntfs I normally change /etc/inittab to boot into level 3. I then build the new NVidia driver and install it. Finally, I attempt to build the kernel-ntfs module and install it. The last two times building the kernel-ntfs module have failed (and I get the RPM from linux-ntfs.sf.net). Once the first is accomplished, I then change back to run level 5 and reboot. If you're having immediate problems with booting, try seeing if you can boot into single user mode. Then take a look at the logs and see if there are problems. I know, I know - this isn't very informative. However I hope it gets you started. /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
