Re: Using 2.4.18 on Ultra 1

> I just started using the 2.4.18 kernel from
> ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

(...)

> Reboot was OK except init hung instead of reading /etc/inittab.
> I rebuilt the same version on init (2.78) from src, no changes to src
> and
> no changes to the Makefile and it worked fine.
> The rebuilt one works on the old kernel 2.4.14 too.
> The sizes of the two executables are a bit confusing though:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        30632 May 26 19:08 init.new
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       502540 Oct 29  2001 init.orig

This has been discused here and other places also. If you use kernel
2.4.18, you will have problems running static binaries (like SuSE's
defaul init :). Use 2.4.18-rc4, or some .19-pre kernels. instead.

-- 
Alvaro Figueroa



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