edwardp Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) I installed the new kernel today (2.6.17-10). Booted up fine. Upon removal of old kernel (2.6.17-8), I discovered that it removed BOTH initrd.img files, for both 2.6.17-8 AND 2.6.17-10. If I rebooted from there, I know the system would have been toast. I copied the initrd.img for the new kernel from my other Mandriva system to this one. Now, when I power it up, the initialization screen now shows the orange Mandriva One wallpaper image, but when it goes to the login screen, it displays the blue Mandriva Free wallpaper image. I detected the problem when lilo-v reported it could not find the initrd file in the /boot directory. (After this episode, I left the old kernel (2.6.17-8) on the other machine and have not removed it.) How do I restore the blue Free wallpaper image at startup? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Edited February 11, 2007 by edwardp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardp Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 I fixed this proiblem by reinstalling Mandriva from scratch. However, something interesting came up and since this did not occur on Pentium One, I'm at a loss as to why this was a problem on the K6-2. When I installed Mandriva One on the K6-2, everything went fine. Mandriva One included an nvidia-legacy video driver on the CD. The orginal kernel 2.6.17.5 worked perfectly. Here is where the problem is: On Pentium One, when I installed the next available kernel since its original installation, which was 2.6.17.6, there were no issues. When it tried to install nvidia-legacy, it indicated that kernel-source was not installed, so I installed the kernel-source for 2.6.17.6, but the nvidia-legacy driver still did not load. Upon installing subsequent kernels 2.6.17.8 and now 2.6.17.10, the reference to nvidia-legacy does not even come up during the initializaiton and the system continues to come up fine. In attempting to resolve the above problem (my original post), I installed Mandriva One on the K6-2. Using 2.6.17.5 there were no problems. However when I installed 2.6.17.10 (or tried to), the same error referencing kernel-source came up, however on the K6-2, X did not start at all, I saw a text login screen. When I ran "startx" logged in as root, it displayed various fatal errors that X could not start due to the lack of nvidia-legacy as part of the 2.6.17.10 kernel. I eventually reinstalled Mandriva Free on the K6-2 and all is well again. My question is this: Without the nvidia-legacy driver available in subsequent kernels on a Mandriva One installation, why does the Pentium One boot up fine, yet with the same software on the K6-2, it has a problem and would even not start X? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 What nvidia old cards we're talking about? In most cases, with old GeForce/GeForce2 hardware, there's no real gain on 3D by using the "nvidia" driver- performance is equally poor with the "nv" driver, which is less of a fuss to set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardp Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 (edited) The chip on the video card in the K6-2 is a Riva TNT2 M64. In the Pentium, it's a GeForce 2MX. After I had installed Mandriva One on the K6-2, after all that (above), I also tried to change the X server on the K6-2 to use the X.org "nv" driver and an error came up indicating that was not installed either. At that point, I reinstalled Mandriva using the Free CD set. I do not use 3D on either machine. Edited February 12, 2007 by edwardp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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