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On Sat, Apr 28 2007, at 12:30 +0800, William Xu wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the quotes): time makeflags wolfgang pfeiffer Or you can have a look at http://www.wolfgangpfeiffer.com/kernel.html Looks like i'm unable to connect it ? You say you cannot connect to that page? If yes: Works without probs here, but please let me know in case this problem keeps to persist ... After all especially the linux pages - as the fine rest of them :) - on my site are made for everyone's use, so I'd really be glad to know about the errors someone gets when trying to see them ... PM is OK ... Thanks in anticipation Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I made slight changes on Key ID: E3037113. Please refresh it. http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Sat, Apr 28 2007, at 16:44 +0800, William Xu wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel above is a from the git repository, IINM. The config is attached. Your config works great ! Which means you have a bootable kernel now, right? If not you might want let us know ... Except that my root fs is xfs, which makes me recompile it with xfs built-in. Also in yaboot.conf i changed hdc to hda. One little problem is that i need to apply Andy Wingo's capslock patch again.. Thanks a lot ! Definitely welcome: I'm always glad to hear that this - at times - cumbersome kernel config editing helps others, too :) BTW: For the next kernel I'll compile I'll have a closer look at the multicast enabled kernel option - which is, AFAIKS, currently not switched on with the config I sent here ... not being sure what this 'multicast' thing is, but IIRC I got an error, or so, in the past weeks, and I'll possibly enable this switch next time I compile this nice beast again ... :) At any rate: Good luck :) Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I made slight changes on Key ID: E3037113. Please refresh it. http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
It means you have not installed the dependencies of the package. that it tries to call mkvmlinuz is a hint that you are not on powermac, or that you do something strange. ,[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Suggested packages: | linux-doc-2.6.18 | The following NEW packages will be installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 513 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives. | After unpacking 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used. | Preconfiguring packages ... | (Reading database ... 174438 files and directories currently installed.) | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb) ... | Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 238, STDIN line 9. | Ok, Aborting Try apt-get install initramfs-tools. I wonder how you where able to install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc without it automatically pulling in either yaird or initramfs-tools. This is a RC bug in itself if it is confirmed. But : It turns out that initramfs-tools does be installed already. And i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. (maybe due to the reinstallation of util-linux package ?) ,[ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Suggested packages: | linux-doc-2.6.18 | The following NEW packages will be installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 521 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives. | After unpacking 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used. | Preconfiguring packages ... | (Reading database ... 176314 files and directories currently installed.) | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb) ... | Ok, Aborting | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb (--unpack): | subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 | Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . | run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/mkvmlinuz | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ` While, my current partition table is: [...] This still seems like a mac. Please try : dpkg-reconfigure mkvmlinuz, and chose yaboot. It already is.. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:40:11 +0200, William wrote: And i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. Maybe it's time for a good hardware check. If you have a RAM module installed, try removing it and retry to install the kernel. There is a version of memtest for OSX, you could also try that. Plus, make a good fsck on your linux partitions. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel above is a from the git repository, IINM. The config is attached. Your config works great ! Except that my root fs is xfs, which makes me recompile it with xfs built-in. Also in yaboot.conf i changed hdc to hda. One little problem is that i need to apply Andy Wingo's capslock patch again.. Thanks a lot ! -- William To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:40:11 +0200, William wrote: And i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. Maybe it's time for a good hardware check. If you have a RAM module installed, try removing it and retry to install the kernel. There is a version of memtest for OSX, you could also try that. Plus, make a good fsck on your linux partitions. That scares me.. ;-) This ibook is being well for more than three years now.. Apple's hardware seems nice. -- William I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck. -- Rob Pike, on X. Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be gone in two years. He was half right. -- Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie is twice as bright as Steve Jobs, and only half wrong. -- Jim Gettys -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:50:06 +0200, William Xu wrote: This ibook is being well for more than three years now.. Apple's hardware seems nice. And it sure is, my iBook is now almost 4 years old too and it's still rock solid. But a faulty ram module can always happen ;) -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Fri, Apr 27 2007, at 13:18 +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info Here: cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-rc4-060811-dirty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060729 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-10)) #1 Fri Aug 11 00:16:22 CEST 2006 The kernel above is a from the git repository, IINM. The config is attached. We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the quotes): time makeflags wolfgang pfeiffer Or you can have a look at http://www.wolfgangpfeiffer.com/kernel.html Good luck Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I made slight changes on Key ID: E3037113. Please refresh it. http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.18-rc4-060811 # Fri Aug 11 00:05:28 2006 # # CONFIG_PPC64 is not set CONFIG_PPC32=y CONFIG_PPC_MERGE=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_IRQ_PER_CPU=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM=y CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_PPC_OF=y CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550=y # CONFIG_GENERIC_TBSYNC is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_UIMAGE is not set # # Processor support # CONFIG_CLASSIC32=y # CONFIG_PPC_52xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_82xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_83xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_85xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_86xx is not set # CONFIG_40x is not set # CONFIG_44x is not set # CONFIG_8xx is not set # CONFIG_E200 is not set CONFIG_6xx=y CONFIG_PPC_FPU=y CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST=/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 is not set # CONFIG_TASKSTATS is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_AUDIT=y CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE= # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is not set # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Block layer # CONFIG_LBD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_LSF is not set # # IO Schedulers # CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED=anticipatory # # Platform support # CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM=y # CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES is not set # CONFIG_EMBEDDED6xx is not set # CONFIG_APUS is not set CONFIG_PPC_CHRP=y CONFIG_PPC_PMAC=y # CONFIG_PPC_CELL is not set # CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE is not set # CONFIG_UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_MPIC=y CONFIG_PPC_RTAS=y # CONFIG_RTAS_ERROR_LOGGING is not set CONFIG_RTAS_PROC=y # CONFIG_MMIO_NVRAM is not set CONFIG_PPC_MPC106=y # CONFIG_PPC_970_NAP is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PMAC=y # CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX is not set CONFIG_TAU=y # CONFIG_TAU_INT is not set # CONFIG_TAU_AVERAGE is not set # CONFIG_WANT_EARLY_SERIAL is not set # # Kernel options # CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set CONFIG_HZ_1000=y CONFIG_HZ=1000 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18 and sid's 2.6.20. If i where you, i would install the etch 2.6.18 kernel, and if you really need something custom use the etch source package to build your own kernel, starting from the /boot/config-2.6.18... file. It looks like i seldom have luck on installing pre-compiled kernel provided by debian.. This time again. What does this error mean? ,[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Suggested packages: | linux-doc-2.6.18 | The following NEW packages will be installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 513 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives. | After unpacking 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used. | Preconfiguring packages ... | (Reading database ... 174438 files and directories currently installed.) | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb) ... | Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 238, STDIN line 9. | Ok, Aborting | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb (--unpack): | subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 | Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . | run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/mkvmlinuz | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | think-different:/home/william# ` Nevertheless, i extract the config file from it, and is being compiled it now. This config seems including way too much staffs, the compilation takes more than *two hours*... And, when rebooting the new kernel fails at: , | VFS: Cannot open root device hdc4 on unknown block (0, 0) | Please append a correct root= boot option | Kernel panic, not syncing: | VFS: unable to moiunt root fs on unknown block (0, 0) ` Above these lines, i notice that the new kernel has tagged ATA hard disk as /dev/hda. So this seems to be the problem. While, my current partition table is: ,[ sudo fdisk -l ] | /dev/hdc | #type name length base ( size ) system | /dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple63 @ 1( 31.5k) Partition map | /dev/hdc2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock | /dev/hdc3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260544 @ 1664 (127.2M) Linux swap | /dev/hdc4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12311320 @ 262208 ( 5.9G) Linux native | /dev/hdc5 Apple_HFS macimage6291456 @ 12573528 ( 3.0G) HFS | /dev/hdc6 Apple_HFS macosx 716 @ 18864984 ( 3.8G) HFS | /dev/hdc7 Apple_HFS source 31851320 @ 26753800 ( 15.2G) HFS | | Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 | DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 | ` It's a bit weird that the ATA hard disk has been tagged as /dev/hdc since the first time installation of debian by cdrom. But later i always upgrade linux kernel by hand, and without much problem up to 2.6.15. To solve the kernel panic, i tried appending root= option on yaboot, , | vmlinux root=/dev/hda4 ` But it still causes similar error. :( boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info This is a yaboot warning, saying it has trouble finding the elf header from the kernel. My first guess is that either your kernel is not an elf file, and something went horribly wrong, or more probably your yaboot.conf points at the wrong file, and not at the actual kernel. Maybe you have a dangling symlink or something ? They are all okay, AFAIK. ps. It's ibook G4 1G, 12.1' here. -- William Eli and Bessie went to sleep. In the middle of the night, Bessie nudged Eli. Please be so kindly and close the window. It's cold outside! Half asleep, Eli murmured, Nu ... so if I'll close the window, will it be warm outside? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the quotes): time makeflags wolfgang pfeiffer Or you can have a look at http://www.wolfgangpfeiffer.com/kernel.html Looks like i'm unable to connect it ? This is how i usually build kernel under debian, , | $ make menuconfig | $ sudo make_kpkg kernel_iamge | $ sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb ` I will try your .config at the same time. Thanks ! -- William It was a JOKE!! Get it?? I was receiving messages from DAVID LETTERMAN!! YOW!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18 and sid's 2.6.20. If i where you, i would install the etch 2.6.18 kernel, and if you really need something custom use the etch source package to build your own kernel, starting from the /boot/config-2.6.18... file. It looks like i seldom have luck on installing pre-compiled kernel provided by debian.. This time again. What does this error mean? It means you have not installed the dependencies of the package. that it tries to call mkvmlinuz is a hint that you are not on powermac, or that you do something strange. ,[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Suggested packages: | linux-doc-2.6.18 | The following NEW packages will be installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 513 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives. | After unpacking 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used. | Preconfiguring packages ... | (Reading database ... 174438 files and directories currently installed.) | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb) ... | Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 238, STDIN line 9. | Ok, Aborting Try apt-get install initramfs-tools. I wonder how you where able to install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc without it automatically pulling in either yaird or initramfs-tools. This is a RC bug in itself if it is confirmed. But : The dependencies are : Depends: module-init-tools (= 0.9.13), coreutils (= 5.96), mkvmlinuz (= 24), initramfs-tools (= 0.55) | yaird (= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb (--unpack): | subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 | Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . | run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/mkvmlinuz | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | think-different:/home/william# ` Nevertheless, i extract the config file from it, and is being compiled it now. This config seems including way too much staffs, the compilation takes more than *two hours*... And, when rebooting the new kernel fails at: , | VFS: Cannot open root device hdc4 on unknown block (0, 0) | Please append a correct root= boot option | Kernel panic, not syncing: | VFS: unable to moiunt root fs on unknown block (0, 0) ` Above these lines, i notice that the new kernel has tagged ATA hard disk as /dev/hda. So this seems to be the problem. While, my current partition table is: ,[ sudo fdisk -l ] | /dev/hdc | #type name length base ( size ) system | /dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple63 @ 1( 31.5k) Partition map | /dev/hdc2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock | /dev/hdc3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260544 @ 1664 (127.2M) Linux swap | /dev/hdc4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12311320 @ 262208 ( 5.9G) Linux native | /dev/hdc5 Apple_HFS macimage6291456 @ 12573528 ( 3.0G) HFS | /dev/hdc6 Apple_HFS macosx 716 @ 18864984 ( 3.8G) HFS | /dev/hdc7 Apple_HFS source 31851320 @ 26753800 ( 15.2G) HFS | | Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 | DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 | ` This still seems like a mac. Please try : dpkg-reconfigure mkvmlinuz, and chose yaboot. It's a bit weird that the ATA hard disk has been tagged as /dev/hdc since the first time installation of debian by cdrom. But later i always upgrade linux kernel by hand, and without much problem up to 2.6.15. To solve the kernel panic, i tried appending root= option on yaboot, , | vmlinux root=/dev/hda4 ` But it still causes similar error. :( boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info This is a yaboot warning, saying it has trouble finding the elf header from the kernel. My first guess is that either your kernel is not an elf file, and something went horribly wrong, or more probably your yaboot.conf points at the wrong file, and not at the actual kernel. Maybe you have
unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info Any thoughts on this? Attachment is .config file. -- William NATHAN ... your PARENTS were in a CARCRASH!! They're VOIDED -- They COLLAPSED They had no CHAINSAWS ... They had no MONEY MACHINES ... They did PILLS in SKIMPY GRASS SKIRTS ... Nathan, I EMULATED them ... but they were OFF-KEY ... # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.18.4 # Thu Apr 26 22:18:10 2007 # # CONFIG_PPC64 is not set CONFIG_PPC32=y CONFIG_PPC_MERGE=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_IRQ_PER_CPU=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM=y CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_PPC_OF=y CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550=y # CONFIG_GENERIC_TBSYNC is not set CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_UIMAGE is not set # # Processor support # CONFIG_CLASSIC32=y # CONFIG_PPC_52xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_82xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_83xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_85xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_86xx is not set # CONFIG_40x is not set # CONFIG_44x is not set # CONFIG_8xx is not set # CONFIG_E200 is not set CONFIG_6xx=y CONFIG_PPC_FPU=y CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST=/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE is not set # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_TASKSTATS is not set # CONFIG_AUDIT is not set # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE= CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is not set # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Block layer # # CONFIG_LBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_LSF is not set # # IO Schedulers # CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED=anticipatory # # Platform support # CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM=y # CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES is not set # CONFIG_EMBEDDED6xx is not set # CONFIG_APUS is not set CONFIG_PPC_CHRP=y CONFIG_PPC_PMAC=y # CONFIG_PPC_CELL is not set # CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE is not set # CONFIG_UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_PPC_RTAS=y # CONFIG_RTAS_ERROR_LOGGING is not set CONFIG_RTAS_PROC=y # CONFIG_MMIO_NVRAM is not set CONFIG_PPC_MPC106=y # CONFIG_PPC_970_NAP is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set # CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX is not set # CONFIG_TAU is not set # CONFIG_WANT_EARLY_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_MPIC=y # # Kernel options # # CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set CONFIG_HZ_250=y # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=250 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_FLATMEM=y CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 # CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT is not set CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y # CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_PM_LEGACY=y # CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION= CONFIG_SECCOMP=y CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y # # Bus options # # CONFIG_ISA is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y # CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD is not set CONFIG_PPC_I8259=y CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=y # CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG is not set # # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support # CONFIG_PCCARD=m # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y # # PC-card bridges # # CONFIG_YENTA is not set # CONFIG_PD6729 is not set # CONFIG_I82092 is not set # # PCI Hotplug Support # #
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18 and sid's 2.6.20. If i where you, i would install the etch 2.6.18 kernel, and if you really need something custom use the etch source package to build your own kernel, starting from the /boot/config-2.6.18... file. boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info This is a yaboot warning, saying it has trouble finding the elf header from the kernel. My first guess is that either your kernel is not an elf file, and something went horribly wrong, or more probably your yaboot.conf points at the wrong file, and not at the actual kernel. Maybe you have a dangling symlink or something ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu a écrit : Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). Hi, Maybe you can try to use the .config from the debian package for Etch ? Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
