Hello all. last week I got me an old 486 box, so I could have my own computer. i scavenged the 4.3GB HDD that contains RH6 from my previous computer (a P2/300) and installed it into the 486. hardware wise it was ok, but of course it didn't boot the kernel. so I took out my trusty rescue disk and sat down to compile me a kernel. after several tryouts i managed to do everything right (I hope) and got a usable kernel which then went on to a diskette. it boots fine, but when it gets to 'finding module dependencies' it just pause there. the HDD blinks a little at start but after a while this ends to. i left it like this, once, for almost two hours and it didn't continue. so I break it with ^C and it continues to boot normally and everything seems to be fine. the only problems that I've found (during normal operation after I break the 'module dependencies') is that it doesn't auto mount the fat system on the second drive, like it used to do on my previous computer (I compiled the msdos fs support into the kernel - it's not a module), and when I run mc , it reports some kind of problem with shr_util.c or something to that affect (I can't remember right now) but continues normally. and yes, I did do 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' . I have two more problems - completely unrelated, but on the same machine : 1. when I drag a window while in 1024x768x8 mode in X (not dragging a frame, but the whole window) the screen noticeably wobbles , like the vertical scan lines are out of sync or something. it doesn't happen any other time. my graphics card is a poor cl-gd5428 on a VLB . is that normal ? 2. I tried to use LILO to multi-boot into either HDD (the other one runs MS-DOS) and at first it was quite ok, but after two days or so it started malfunctioning, putting 'L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01...' on the screen whenever the computer boots and refusing to do anything else. I used the compact and linear options in the lilo.conf file when it was still working ok (other wise it was failing) and I didn't change anything when it went wrong. can someone tell me what I can do ? I currently boot either from diskette, or with 'loadlin.exe' . thanks for any help . Oded -- "In a survey taken several years ago, all incoming freshman at MIT were asked if they expected to graduate in the top half of their class. Ninety-seven percent responded that they did." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
