Jack Wilkinson on Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:25:29 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Arrrgh! Help!


Thursday, 28 January 99, it was written:

> OK, so now 2.2 is out, so I thought I'd get focused on writing a driver for
> my sound card.  Well, I managed to focus myself up real good installing the
> kernel.  Here's the sad story:

> I have a multi-boot machine, using the NT boot manager (yeah, yeah,yeah...).
> I compiled a new 2.2 kernel, installed it, and got it to boot just fine.
> Unfortunately, I forgot to compile in PPP support.  OK, no big deal,
> re-config, re-make, re-install, re-boot and -- when decompressing the new
> kernel, I get "out of data -- system halted".  OK, boot up under my old
> kernel, re-run /sbin/lilo, reboot -- same thing.  Hmmm, dunno, make clean,
> make zImage, mv, /sbin/lilo, reboot.  Suddenly I get "LIL-" and I'm dead.  I
> recall that LILO indicates problems this way, but of course all my HOWTOs
> are freshly inaccessible.  So, my questions are:

> 1) What does "LIL-" indicate?
> 2) Should I have re-exported my boot block to NT?  (But why did it work the
> first few times?)
> 3) Anybody know of a filesystem driver/reader that will install/run under
> NT?

> Thanks in advance for any sage advice!
> -- Tracy Nelson

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I dunno about your problem, but there are bugs in 2.2.0 ... so I'd
wait a little bit before jumping on the bandwagon and stick with
2.0.36, 2.1.132, or 2.2.0-pre4 or so...

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