2.5.x kernel questions

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> 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.

I already did that, and actually, very little on my system needed to be
upgraded.

>
>
> 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!
>
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-users mailing list
> Linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
>

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo		     http://netllama.ipfox.com