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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 21:26, David Nellans wrote: |
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> i made an attempt to use a 2.2 kernel gentoo system as described in the |
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> install faq, and also attempted to drop a 2.2 kernel into a machine thats |
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> been running gentoo for almost a year now. |
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> in both cases the kernel will boot but when INIT loads it returns |
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> Fatal: kernel to old and hangs hard. I can't find any references to |
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> kernel versioning being a problem in the util-linux changelogs so i'm |
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> wondering if this is actually more of a problem with the gentoo |
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> init-scripts that is only appearing as a problem with INIT? |
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> has anyone heard of anyone actually using a 2.2 kernel sucessfully in a |
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> gentoo system, if so please let me know as i'd like to get the docs for |
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> doing it correctly updated! |
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I believe the gentoo glibc build process set's the minimum kernel version to |
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2.4.0. As 2.2 is really incompatible for this glibc it doesn't work. |
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Recompile glibc to allow for 2.2 kernels and try again. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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