Maybe my kernel will work

[Bonez]

I figured out how to write to the drive. I guess when I updated /etc/fstab 
before, I hadn't booted my system down to a level  to get it to reread the 
changes. I am sure there is a way to accomplish this, to 'source it' or 
something. Please enlighten me if this is an option. 

> I'd be quite surprised if anything worked on that kernel.  Its a blackhole
> of bugs & instabilities, and i donit' know that it ever had much in the
> way of decent USB functionality.

Oh, such confidence. Now I'll worry myself silly until I get it updated. Yes 
I was working on upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel with XFS enabled. Here's what 
I have tried in the past and where i am with that project. 

I run Win4Lin to enable one persistent app for which I find no suitable linux 
analogue, yet. I have followed instructions from Netraverse on patching the 
2.4.20 kernel source files, and then compiling and trying to run that. I 
succeed in getting 2.4.20 to boot up and run, and it does run Win4Lin when 
it's booted up. However, my NIC, sound and some other things all fail upon 
boot, despite the new kernel using similar settings. I assume that during the 
make/make install process it looks at the settings of my current working 
system and carries those over to the new build. Without the NIC 
functionality, both my LAN and internet access are down. Thus I boot up and 
read the messages as they fly by, and then shut down and boot back into 2.4.2 
which works, although not with new things like Palm synch  and my ScanJet 4c 
that I need to get working. 

I downloaded a fresh archive of 2.4.20 from kernel.org and ran all the 
patching that I needed and that worked before, rendering NO FAILED HUNK 
notices. When I run the XFS patch file, there are many many failed hunk 
messages. This is what baffles me. I think I need to work the bugs out and 
get 2.4.20 working without including the XFS support first, resolving the 
failure of various modules and other items to load at boot time. Then I can 
compile in the XFS functions and move to that point. 

I welcome any assistance and am very very grateful for the list here, and 
being able to share my experience and learn from you all. If you need me to 
post .log files or want to point me to the files I need to examine to find 
out where the new kernel breaks when loading, please point the way. 

Thank You,

Scott

> I thought you were trying to build a 2.4.20 XFS enabled kernel?  Why not
> get that working, and then move onto the USB stuff?
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