Re: suse kernels

From: Nwsgrp (nwsgrp01_at_fambinsted.demon.nl)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 12:45:37 +0200

Michael W. Cocke wrote:

> On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:39:45 +0100, steveo <na@na.com> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know why suse do not release later kernels for their distros.
>>
>>Yes they backport the security and major bug fix's, but for example suse
>>9.1 uses 2.6.4. There have been updates for this kernel, but they have
>>not released 2.6.6, ok so thats a bit soon, but its just an example.
>>
>>Is it because of the amount of patching thats done to the standard kernel,
>>that its too much time/effort or...
>>
>>On my Slackware distro Im running 2.6.6-bk9 which is a big imrpovement
>>over 2.6.4.
>>
>>Or am I wrong, and I just have not seen them?
>
> Not really an answer to your question, but I dropped in 2.6.6 from
> kernel.org on my suse 9.1 a couple of days ago. No problems yet. The
> only thing I can see is the idiotic splash screen that covers the boot
> log is broken, and good riddance.
>
> Mike-
>
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I have tried (or am still trying) to drop in 2.6.6 into a SuSE 9.1 and am
having a lot of problems. I have built the SuSE 9.1 kernel without any
problems. Basically I am consistently getting the / only mounted as ro.
Have tried with reiserfs as both modules and built-in. Any help would be
appreciated. 

-- 
Gr, Tim