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Re: [Plex86-devel] May I help? / Bugreport
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Christian Boltz |
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Re: [Plex86-devel] May I help? / Bugreport |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:24:45 +0100 |
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Hi "Linuxhippy", hi *,
@"Linuxhippy": Why don't you use your realname? I'd prefer that ;-)
Sun, Dec 15. 2002, Linuxhippy wrote:
> I´m using SuSE-Linux 8.1 with the standard-kernel, the module-load
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... which means the standard _SuSE_-Kernel. Right?
> script most time terminates with this error-message:
> [...]
> ./../kernel/plex86.o: init_module: Invalid argument
> [...]
> When I tinkered a little bit around I was able to load the module
> manuelle with insmod, but when I wanted to start plex86 my whole
> Linux-System rebooted. [...]
I had the same problem with SuSE 7.3 and the 2.4.16-4GB kernel. Seems
that on of the about 300 (IIRC) patches SuSE applies on the kernel
triggers this problem.
I now use a unpatched Vanilla-Kernel from Kernel.org (also in the SuSE
package linux-`uname -r`-$build-`uname -m`.rpm) and don't have this
problem any longer.
If you have enougth time, try to apply one patch, compile the kernel,
try plex86. If it works, try (additionally) to apply the second patch,
compile again, ... [1]
The SuSE patches are in the RPM [3]
(SuSE CD 5) /cdrom/suse/nosrc/kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-49.nosrc.rpm
But: don't install this package with rpm -U / -i or YaST, this will
apply all patches immediately (if I understand the spec file correctly).
Instead, open the RPM file with mc, extract the files and then have a
look at README.patches (description of (some of) the patches) and the
kernel-source.spec file (you can use parts of this file to see which
patches are applied on the i386 SuSE-kernel).
If you don't like the .spec file, just test the patches from
patches.tar.bz2 and patches.i386.tar.bz2
Yours,
Christian Boltz
[1] http://www.dhaller.de/linux/multikernel.html [2] could be useful to
have (at least) one bootable kernel ;-)
[2] This is a German text, but you also have a German mail adress. So it
shouldn't be a problem...
[3] maybe that you have to install linux-2.4.19-2.i586.rpm from CD 3
first, which contains the unpatched kernel source from kernel.org
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