On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rial Juan wrote: > > I used MandrakeUpdate to bring my system up to date, but it warned me that I > should upgrade the kernel rpms manually because there was a possible problem > with ReiserFS. So I did. Rebooted the computer but it gave me lots of problems, > resulting in a kernel panic. > > Then I proceeded with making a working bootdisk at another PC that hadn't been > upgraded yet, so I could access my box again. Trying to downgrade the kernels > didn't work, because all of a sudden I couldn't access the network nor the CDROM > drives. So now I'm stuck here with a half-crippled box. Luckily for me the > recompiled kernels work and I have net and CDROM access again, so I can > downgrade these kernels in a minute. > > Now I'm the first to admit that it was pretty stupid of me to upgrade the > kernel.rpms; usually I leave those alone, download the latest sources from the > net and recompile those according to my needs, adding an extra kernel from which > to boot, being the newly compiled test kernel. > > There is one thing though that I find paricularly short-sighted on behalf of > Mandrake: there is one kernel called "failsafe". Well, I don't understand why > you make a kernel and label it "failsafe" if you're gonna overwrite it with a > new kernel, before it's properly tested. Because that is what happened. > > So for those of you out there that use ReiserFS: stay off the new kernel rpms; > recompile your own from the sources, but leave the precompiled ones in place. > > And to whoever it is at Mandrake that maintains the kernel rpms, fix your > specfile to leave the failsafe kernel in place when the rpms are upgraded. > > Just my $0.02 > Umm....did you see all the talk on this list about a month or so ago about how to do a Kernel upgrade? Look at Mandrake.user.org ? Make a ramdisk to boot with? ...oh and out of curiosity...by any chance did you install the new rpm with the upgrade option? AG
