well i had a tooth dream last night. i was having trouble talking, and reached into my mouth and pulled out 3 or 4 pieces of molar. i didn't have time to dwell on that (fortunately) as i was trying to explain to some people (who were "teaching" a "class" i was in) that i hadn't been in school for about a year so writing and stuff was hard for me. well, actually it's been over 3 years - i think i was thinking that it's been a year since i had a job (although it's actually only 3 months).
today's .spec file trick of the day:
# do this for upgrades...in case the old modules get removed we have # loopback in the kernel so that mkinitrd will work. %pre /sbin/modprobe loop 2> /dev/null > /dev/null || : exit 0
well i now have a dresser and a bookshelf. it's almost as if i live in boston now. i have some other stuff to get, but i plan on doing a bunch of lists and i'll list those then.
i had some success today: i got a UML kernel running, and a cross-compiled kernel loading modules.
i read on the UML page about some problems with it on older cpus and thought that might be it. phil said "oh sometimes you just have to hit enter on the console." turns out it was that. although i am still getting an occasional BUG(). there's really no reason why i should use UML on that box - it really isn't beefy enough to warrant it and i don't actually have any data on it. so tomorrow i'll just skip that and put a lustre kernel on it.
the cross-compiled problem was just that i had [ ] set version number on thingie dingies enabled in the kernel. i've never (ever) gotten that to work right, i think. however pcmcia in 2.4.20 really disagrees with my laptop, so now i'm building one using the external pcmcia-cs drivers (which i think i always used to have to do). maybe i should get a mac?
since the furniture delivery guy didn't get to my place until after 5, the hardware store was closed when i tried to buy a hammer. fortunately phil had one, and he felt sorry for my delirious state (my body really shouldn't have woken itself up at 9 am) so i ended up cooking some food. i think it was a meat and a some sort of vegetable. there were definitely cookies at the end. i feel much better now, although tired.