* Spyros Tsiolis (spytsihotmail.com) wrote:
> So here's a detailed list of what I did :
>
> System came up with 2.2.19-3_imnx. Fine.
> I downloaded all the relevant rpm's from ibiblio.org
> (namely pcmcia-cs.... , kernel-2.2.19-8_imnx.src.rpm ,
> kernel-2.2.19-8_imnx.i386.rpm , kernel-modules[?])
>
> rpm -Uvh blah.rpm

you should not update a kernel package, rather install it (rpm -i). i'm
not really sure the state of your system.

> System came up fine with this : "rpm -qa | grep kernel"
>
> Reconfed /etc/lilo.conf and reran /sbin/lilo
>
> Rebooted the system. System came up with 2.2.19-8_imnx ("uname -a").
>
> Accesses /usr/src/linux and tried to recompile the kernel and
> bosh ! Same thing happened.

heh, this is where we could use some more detail. how did you recompile
the kernel, at what step did the "same thing happen," and just what is
this same thing? ;-)

if you did a simple:
make oldconfig
make dep
make bzImage
...

you'll probably see some errors regarding 'smp_num_cpus'. the fix is as
follows:

cd /usr/src/linux
mv .config ..
make mrproper # this will clean the slate and fix the smp_num_cpus problem
mv ../.config .
make dep
make bzImage
...

thanks,
-chris
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