Bugs in new kernels

[John Patrick Poet]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, John Wendel wrote:

> I've posted about this before, without any replies, so here I go again ...
>
> I have been unable to get a kernel.org kernel to run correctly on FC4.
> The same kernel configuration works fine on FC3. The last kernel I tried
> was 2.6.12.5.
>
> I'd appreciate any tips you might have for getting a stock kernel running.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John


When I upgraded from FC2 to FC4, but Kernel 2.6.12 to Kernel 2.6.12, I tried
using make oldconfig.  Like you, the resulting kernel would not boot.

When I went through from scratch using make xconfig, then the kernel worked
beautifully.

I do not know why...


John