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On Thursday 28 August 2008 10:57, Alan Pope wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:36:50AM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > > > What makes you think they made a new kernel for it? It looks like a > > > stock one to me. > > > > The supplied kernel booted without the above switches suggesting those > > modules weren't compiled in and it used a lot less ram on startup than > > later kernels. > > I think you misunderstand what those switches do. > > Those switches are parameters which disable or enable settings and features > within the kernel. It doesn't mean that certain modules are enabled or not. > > > Of course I didn't do a full backup of the system before I upgraded so I > > could be wrong but the switched did not appear in grubs menu.lst and I > > haven't checked this as I got it mostly working for me before discovering > > that it wont powerup automatically which means I have to modify my dining > > room to put it somewhere I can easily press the power button after one of > > our regular power cuts. > > The parameters were added by viglen manually because they know that the AMD > Geode _can't_ boot without them. They unfortunately put the options in the > _wrong_ place. They tacked them on the end of the specific boot lines when > they should have put them further up in the general options area of the > meun.lst. OK point taken. > > If you upgrade or wipe/reinstall then you won't have those options set > because they are not set by default. You need to set them yourself. You > certainly shouldn't need to recompile the kernel, well, stronger than that, > you definitely _don't_ need to recompile the kernel. If I go back to the original kernel it seems to live quite happily in a lot less ram than the later kernels. I've only got 256M in it - I want to use it as a file server/mail/proxy and the latest kernel boots with about 3MB free whereas the original kernel was running below 100MB IIRC. I'll dig it out and have a play to check sometime but 253MB seems a lot, but l've lost any sense of urgency with it since I found it wont power itself up. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html