I just installed 2.1.36 on my system (not bold enough to try 2.1.44 yet ;-) in place of 2.0.30, which worked great. Yes, I did upgrade libc, ld.so, net-tools, binutils, etc...
RedHat-style install, TYN Tomcat, Pentium-S @ 166 MHz, Matrox Millenium video card, everything else is in the attached bootup messages... Everything is compiled as modules except drivers for hard disk, ext2fs and ELF support.
I've attached the /var/log/messages - the message at the beginning (lines 2 thru 5) is strange - it wasn't there with the earlier kernel. What does it mean and should I worry?
I tried regenerating /boot/System.map - no effect. I'd had RAM problems earlier, so I did a memtest - nothing.
Thanks in advance,
-Vijay
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Error in symbol table input.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Cannot find map file.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max
63)
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xc00faf50
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb3f0
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb420
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.36 BogoMIPS
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Memory: 31088k/32768k available (564k kernel code,
392k reserved, 716k data, 8k init)
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 for Linux 2.1
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.16 for Linux NET3.038.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.037
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Linux version 2.1.36 (root@tcpip1.lmms.lmco.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #18 Fri Jul 11 09:31:12 PDT 1997
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: PIIX3: bus-master IDE device on PCI bus 0 function
57
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide0 master/slave: sample_CLKs=3, recovery_CLKs=1
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: master: fastDMA=yes PreFetch=on IORDY=on
fastPIO=on
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: slave : fastDMA=no PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide1 master: sample_CLKs=5, recovery_CLKs=4
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: master: fastDMA=no PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: slave : sample_CLKs=3, recovery_CLKs=3
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: slave : fastDMA=yes PreFetch=on IORDY=on
fastPIO=on
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: hda: WDC AC22100H, ATA DISK drive
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: hdc: FX810T, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: hda: WDC AC22100H, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Partition check:
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: hda:Started kswapd v 1.23
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: hda1 hda2 hda3
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 8k freed
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.38 for NET3.037
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Appletalk 0.18 for Linux NET3.037
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: eepro100.c:v0.31 3/29/97 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Found Intel i82557 PCI Speedo at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: PCI latency timer (CFLT) is 0x20.Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: eepro100.c:v0.31 3/29/97 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0x6100, 00:A0:C9:1D:2B:D7, IRQ 11.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Board assembly 352509-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Primary interface chip DP83840 PHY #1.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: DP83840 specific setup, setting register 23 to 8462.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: General self-test: passed.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Internal registers self-test: passed.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6).
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Operating in half duplex mode.
Jul 11 10:51:46 expt1 kernel: Reciever lock-up workaround activated.