2.5.x kernel questions

[Aaron Grewell]

Make sure you go through the Documentation/Changes file that comes with the 
kernel source.  There are a fair number of programs that have to be upgraded 
and/or replaced (modutils is one, xfsutils is another) and the URL's are 
there.  I'm surprised you didn't get more in the way of outright failures, 
really.  So many things have changed.


On Monday 05 May 2003 13:37, Net Llama! wrote:
> This one is for those brave enough to have been playing with 2.5.x
> kernels.  I build my first 2.5.x today, 2.5.68 to be precise.
>
> Overall, its not too bad of a mess, although i've got some 'interesting'
> errors in dmesg that i'd like to run by you folks:
>
> 1) None of the entries in my /etc/modules.conf got parsed.  I was able to
> manually load the modules i needed with modprobe, but i'm kinda puzzled as
> to how to resolve this without breaking my fully functional 2.4.20 kernel
> configuration.
> 2) I'm seeing this appear immediately after all the filesystems
> get mounted (BTW, i'm using XFS) "warning: process `update' used the
> obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts?"  Any idas what this is
> about?
> 3) I've got a massive number of ACPI errors similar to this "ACPI-1120:
> *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.PS2M._STA] (Node
> cfe38680), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT"  Should I even both with ACPI, since
> this is not a laptop?
> 4) This appeared immediately before it detects my SCSI controller "scsi
> HBA driver sym53c8xx didn't set a release method, please fix the template"
> 5) My swap partition failed to get activated "version 0 swap is no longer
> supported. Use mkswap -v1 /dev/hda2".  Is it safe to do this if i switch
> back to 2.4.20?
>
>
> That's what i've found so far.  If this stuff is documented somewhere,
> please point the way, and i'll gladly start reading.
>
> thanks!