2005-09-26
Who Took EXT3 out of the default RH/Fedora kernel build ;(
*rant on*
so.. I thought I would go and upgrade the kernel on this machine..it's been a while and it was running FC3..
so I went and upgraded my 2.6.11 kernel to the latest 2.6.12 one.
reboot remotely.. and wait.. like I typically do when I do a normal kernel upgrade.
oh joy.. not this time.. I get a kernel panic.. someone decided the EXT3 driver should be a loadable module HALF WAY THROUGH the release of FC3. and bang.. what would normally have been a regular update wasted my entire weekend.
I tried FC4, Whitebox4, doing custom mkinitrd's and after 6 hours I decided I am no longer the linux guru I thought I was and ended up just rebuilding a custom kernel which had EXT3.
So right now i am running on a half-upgraded whitebox4/Fedora Core 3 machine, and it seems much slower than before (the kernel build just took forever). I can't decide if the box is just slow as it's old (it's a dual pentiumII 850) or if it is some kernel tweak I didn't do.. right now I just don't care.
Oh.. and how this all started
the 'standard' subversion RPM install was complaining about some unresolved symbol.. so I thought it was a good time to upgrade ..
*rant off*
hmm.. maybe I should help Paul out and upgrade to 2.2 tonight ;-) I never said I learn from my mistakes.