Subject: Re: kernel problems
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 14:55:35 MDT
Are you running CS-1.1?
If not, try installing the 'vmlinux' in
/pub/yellowdog/champion-1.1/ppc/install on
the ftp site, as well as kernel-2.2.6-16b.ppc.rpm in
/pub/yellowdog/champion-1.1/ppc/RedHat/RPMS
This does have ppp support.
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, frame wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just started using YDL and I cannot seem to get PPP online. At
> this point, I am unsure whether ppp is even compiled into the kernel
> (2.2.6) as dmesg
> | grep PPP doesn't return anything.
>
> My question is how do I upgrade the kernel?
> So far I've learned that BootX doesn't take compressed kernels, so I've
> done a make vmlinux instead of make zImage, and placed this in the MacOS
> partitions
> system folder, which hangs at "booting..."
>
>
> I was hoping someone could fill me on the differences in booting a new
> kernel with BootX versus lilo, where on simply fills in "image=/zImage"
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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