Kernel Problems – 3415 days old

[JohnnySteele]

Alright. So I got my new hard drive for my laptop, got XP and Slack installed, and compiled a new 2.6.2-mm1 kernel. But, the clicking noise I noticed before is happening again on shutdown, along with a low scratching noise...this does not make me happy, especially with a new drive. Now it does not occur with the bare acpi 2.4.22 kernel that I installed slack with, which leads me to believe that it is somehow related to the kernel(?)
As a side note: the last thing I see before the screen goes blank at shutdown with the 2.4.22 kernel is something to the effect of "flushing all ide devices." Nothing like this on 2.6.2-mm1 shutdown.

Along with this problem, upon shutdown my pcmcia cards are not stopping with the 2.6 kernel, and DHCP configuration on startup is hellaciously slower. Any thoughts???

[Grogan]

Then don't use 2.6.2-mm1, obviously

2.4.24 (soon 2.4.25 will be out) is really the stable kernel. Maybe by 2.6.10 the new one will be ready.