[plug] debian woody and kernels

[Carl Gherardi]

> From: sol [mailto:sol at autonomon.net]
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I followed Tony and Carl's advice and made my laptop 
> unbootable. 8-) But I'm pretty sure this has something to do with APM
support for 
> Vaios. 

Try (from lilo or grub prompt) linux apm=off and see whether that allows you
to boot.

> I did some more trolling around for info on vaio install and found that 
> they don't like 2.4 kernels < 2.4.17 which is what I'm using and higher is

> better seems to be the verdict. 
> 2.4.18 (which is actually 2.4.17)  is the highest version of 
> kernel source in the debian package directory. I was wondering if there
are 
> any pitfalls in getting non-deb kernel sources and compiling (specifically
2.4.20)???
> 

I tend to run linus only kernels. compiling 2.4.20 under debian woody and
unstable works fine.

> I did this once some time ago and got my fingers singed....
> 
> regards,
> sol
>

Cheers

Carl