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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (42402)	4/17/2000 3:39:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

OT A new server has been put up (Pentium 100MHz, 32MB RAM, Red Hat Linux 6.2) I did an upgrade on my 486 internet gateway/firewall machine this weekend. Red Hat 6.1 to Red Hat 6.2. I'd already upgraded the kernel to 2.2.14-1.1.0. The upgrade updated the kernel to 2.2.14-5.0. Needless to say, something got screwed up when I upgraded this "easier to use and maintain than Windows" (or so some have claimed) operating system. My standard NE-compatible ethernet card quit working, and after a while I noticed that I was getting a couple of "can't find module xxx" messages during my numerous reboots. I noticed that the boot ramdisk was still initrd-2.2.14-1.1.0 and I believe (going from memory here) that the lilo.conf file mentioned this ramdisk associated with the vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 file. I then tried to "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0 2.2.14-5.0" and was told "All the loopback devices are in use!". Doing an "init 1" to go into single user mode (just something to try) didn't help. I also noticed that the login prompt, which reports the kernel version, also thought the kernel was 2.2.14-1.1.0. I eventually just gave up and re-upgraded, manually marking the kernel components to force and upgrade over itself. Now my ethernet works and there are no module error messages. However, the ramdisk is still 2.2.14-1.1.0, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the lilo.conf file at all. If what I've read about the ramdisk being for pre-mount drivers (i.e, SCSI) is true then I don't see why it was ever created and used anyway as I have no SCSI By the time I go to bed tonight I expected to have my PPP functional again.