Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264503AbUJET3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264443AbUJET3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:29:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33979 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264386AbUJET3c (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:29:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Jesper Juhl Cc: "Johnson, Richard" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5mk8A8hGYCZ5ENTfpEPB" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1097004565.9975.25.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:29:26 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1810 Lines: 54 --=-5mk8A8hGYCZ5ENTfpEPB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:15, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Johnson, Richard wrote: > Only do that if you are sure your systems bootloader configuration is abl= e=20 > to deal with it. Maybe Fedora is configured so that "make install" can=20 > work, I wouldn't know I'm a Slackware user myself. on Fedora, make install will do the bootloader thing automatically > Could it be you accidentally installed your new modules in the same=20 > location as the old ones or that your initrd holds modules compiled for a= =20 > different kernel than the one you just build - did you remember to update= =20 > your initrd? it can't be an accident; the kernel source that ship in Fedora have a special "custom" added to the EXTRAVERSION to prevent accidents where people who are learning and follow a kernel building howto overwrite the "known good" kernel, but instead things get installed in a parallel dir with a different EXTRAVERSION. If Richard overwrote his modules anyway he must have hacked the Makefile himself to deliberately cause this, at which point... well saw wind harvest storm ;) --=-5mk8A8hGYCZ5ENTfpEPB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBYvYVpv2rCoFn+CIRAgqRAJ0UVVCueCmClB+m7SLCSGzMeLeOAwCgkmUR 5pzgGU24gzjVOsfCHH3SS9Y= =pmWK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5mk8A8hGYCZ5ENTfpEPB-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/