Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:27:54 +0200 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: regarding kernel compilation |
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On 9/20/05, Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/20/05, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:11, Fawad Lateef wrote: > > > I don't think you will be able to compile 2.4 kernel on to the 2.6 > > > kernel based distro .... as in 2.6 based distro, mod-utils and other > > > > 2.6 modutils (module-init-tools to be exact) fall back to <toolname>.old > > (by just exec'ing it) if those exist. > > > > you are right, but if they exists .... but what IIRC I havn't found > them on FC4/RH EL4 distributions ..... > Slackware 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 run just fine with 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels and you can build, install and run both just fine - no problems at all there (even Slackware 9.1 will work with a few small changes).
> > > packages are updated and will only support 2.6 based kernel .... So > > > > Not true. I compiled 2.4 kernels on 2.6 machine without any problems. > > > On which distribution 2.6 based you compiled and succesfully run 2.4 > kernel ??? b/c its not working on FC3/FC4/AS4 ......... > Those are just a small subset of available distributions. Just because it won't work there doesn't mean much.
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