On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:

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You have some other problem than your new kernel (obviously).

Building and installing a new kernel before building userland is highly
recommended. If you build to some other destination than root, you can
build it all at once, but never install the new userland in the runnable
location unless you are running the new kernel. That's the big no-no.

New kernels should always be able to run old executables, unless you
explicitly configure them not to, or we are talking about some odd
exceptions with programs that actually play with kernel datastructures.

So, installing and running a new kernel with old userland should be
fine. The other way around can, however, make you very sad.

You obviously managed to boot the new kernel, log in, and start working
there. Then it broke somewhere along the way of building the new userland.
You should start by checking exactly what happened before jumping to any
conclusions...

	Johnny

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