1st off: Adam:- for some bizarre reason, my box booted into 2.4.18 this morning, even though 3 reboots still took it to 2.2.19 last night. I simply have no idea why.
One question: why do people seem to dislike initrd.img's? I'm gonna have to compile a kernel anyway cos I got all sorts of unresolved symbols, and some of the modules I'd prefer to have compiled in anyway.
Not sure why initrd's are disliked other than maybe speed? i.e. assuming all drivers are loaded as modules.
Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than 1 frame a second it's worth it!
For some reason, lilo won't let me boot to my second disk. I have a second HD, with a copy of lilo on it (from previous installation). I would like the lilo on hda1 to boot onto hdb1, but for some reason it won't let me do this this morning (it just ignores me-no errors!) my lilo.conf line for it is:
other=/dev/hdb1 label=Redhat alias=2
I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) Try this
other=/dev/hdb1 label=RedHat alias=2 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
-General Weirdness Section-
Last night, running on my old kernel, I copied the kernel source from a CD to my HD. While it did this my Xserver hung up until it had finished. The same happened when I un-bzipped it. grrr.
Adam suggested it might be a h/w problem, so I booted into RH (which can't do *now*, grrr), and quite happily copied 4gigs from one directory to another, whilst mucking about with xmms, no lock up. Copied the kernel source from CD to ~/ and that was fine, unpacked it, fine.
Anyone else experience this?
I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and newer ide controllers?
I agree myself that Debian rocks!
Cheers
David.
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