On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Joey L wrote: > I am running debian etch with - Linux thor 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 25 > 21:08:54 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux ; I am running this with Raid 5 and LVM. > > I would like to update to 2.6.29 ; I found this article but i am little > stuck, can you help ?
I guess I can. :-) > The steps are: > > 1. apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 > > 2. wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 > > 3. > > tar xjf linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 > > cd linux-2.6.29/ > > 4.make menuconfig > > make-kpkg clean > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > But i am getting an error that it can not find or mount the filesystem. > > If i reboot again and choose the older config, everything is back to normal > and i am working with the old kernel. > > Can anyone assist ??? Please let me know if this helps. -- Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org