Doug Southerland writes, "When the kernel boots it tries to find its needed modules in /lib/modules, and they won't be there." Is this why I'm unable to even access network devices when I try running a 2.4.26 kernel on Slackware 9.1? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/19/2004 at 6:23 PM Doug Sutherland wrote: >> I thought that the kernel was independent from the software > > running on a particular machine. > >Considering that the kernel provides access to all of the >hardware, this not true. The hardware drivers are a moving >target, drivers change, and methods change. For example there >is the old method of using mknod for devices, then there was >devfs, in the future there will be udev. > > > I know that a person runs some distribution, then often > > downloads later kernel source, recompiles it and everything > > is fine. > >Yep. > > > I thought I'd start by doing something simpler. I simply tried > > to boot Slackware 8 with a speakup-enabled slackware 9 kernel > >This almost never works. The loadable kernel modules won't match >along with other stuff. When the kernel boots it tries to find >its needed modules in /lib/modules, and they won't be there. > > > tried to use a slackware 8 boot disk after I'd installed 9.1 > > on my hard disk. In both cases, I couldn't boot. I got a kernel > > panic (which speakup read fine.) Why? > >You should be able to boot a slack9.1 system with a slack8 boot >disk, provided you specify something like this at the first prompt > >mount root=/dev/hda2 ro > >You need to specify your root partition. >I noticed that the command to do this changed in the 9.x series, >I think you now need to specify noinitrd or something like that, >read the BOOTING.TXT file in slackware, and the boot disk will >usually say something like this: you can boot your linux system >in a pinch by doing this (follow those instructions). I guess its >a chicken and egg scenario since linux isn't loaded yet so no >speakup. > > -- Doug > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
