I tracked the problem down to local apic not being enabled on this machine (and it has an old bios that will not allow me to do *anything* without Win*).
When I compiled a new kernel the online instructions say to use mkinitrd to build the initrd. Unfortunately, it is not mkinitrd installed on the base system and the instructions to apt-get it are out of date. From what I have seen on the net it appears that mkinitrd is deprecated. So the new question is how to build the initrd image on ubuntu? Also, when I try to install and update grub it just brings me a blank grub screen because it apparently cannot find the configuration. At this point I think I will have to either reinstall gentoo or try something like TCL. EBo -- On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:02:55 -0600, EBo wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:26:09 +0200, Alex Joni wrote: >> Can you check the md5sum for the downloaded/burned CD? >> The only explanation I can figure is a mixup in the downloading >> process.. >> the 10.04+emc2 live CD has been used by loads of people (and RT >> worked for >> most of them). > > CD Title: emc2buntu10.04 > /dev/hda 691916 691916 0 100% /mnt/dvd > > c2 ~ > md5sum /dev/hda > 5283b33b7e23e79da1ee561ad476b05f /dev/hda > > Which matches the documented checksum on > <http://www.linuxcnc.org/content/view/21/4/lang,english/> > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:17:18 -0600, Chris Radek wrote: >> What exactly were the symptoms? What did you see? What was >> reported >> in dmesg? What kind of hardware was it? > > I'm in the middle of rebuilding from source so it will take awhile > before I fully replicate the issues, but here are some more details. > I > did not delve much more deeply once I learned that the kernel > modules > were not where they were being looked for </lib/modules/*>. It is > possible that I misread the message, so when the recompilation of > the > kernel is done I will reboot the CD and document the details. > > For now, the machine is a HP ze1115 laptop with 256MB Ram running on > a > 1.1GHz AMD Duron CPU. Before people start going off about laptops > having timing issues, what I wanted to do is to test it to see if it > would be good enough to control a SLOW cnc machine. Also, I had > RTAI > running on this laptop before, so I know that it will run... > > > EBo -- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio > XE: > Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. > Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. > Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit > performance. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
