Hi,

I just struggled for about half a month to get the 2.6 kernel running under suse 9 - and yesterday I got it finally running.

1.) I was more successful with 2.6.3
2.) Don't forget to make an initial ramdisk. I use
the following script as root:

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if [ $# = 1 ] ; then
make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-$1
cp System.map /boot/System.map-$1
mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-$1 -i initrd-$1 -b /boot
else
echo "This script needs the kernel version number as argument!"
echo "Aborted."
fi
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3.) make sure you deactivate the kernel option
"automount /dev filesystem",
otherwise your partitions will not be found correctly.
4.) some init scripts don't work anymore. In particular sound and
network. So far I solved the sound problem.
Origin of the problem: the script uses the output of "modprobe -c"
to identify the sound cards. Now modprobe works differently
under 2.6 and this doesn't work.
Solution: edit the script /etc/init.d/alsasound
Two things need to be changed:
* replace the function "get_drivers" by something like
function get_drivers() {
if [ `uname -r` = "2.6.3" ] ; then
echo "snd-intel8x0"
else
/sbin/modprobe -c | \
grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | sort |\
awk '{print $3}'
fi
}

* remove the version test - which ironically prevents you
rrom running a more recent alsa version. Comment the
following out:
# check ALSA driver version 0.9

#removed, since it does not work under 2.6.3
#if head -n 1 /proc/asound/version | grep -q '0\.9'; then
# :
#else
# echo -n "The running ALSA driver looks obsolete. Stop ALSA now."
# stop
# rc_failed 1
# rc_status -v
# return
#fi

I'm still struggling to get the ethernet running. Probably a similar
problem.

Hope this helps,

Uli

I recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6.4 and I have the same problem with LVM (but I think the system is running well). But your modprobe failure is strange. Did you generate a /etc/modprobe.conf ? This is the file that replaces /etc/modules.conf in Kernel 2.4 and can be generated by a script:

/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf > /etc/modprobe.conf

You may need to upgrade the module-init-tools to get the script. But SuSE9.0 should have this installed already AFAIK. You can get a very short description on how to upgrade on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel

Markus