Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

[Alexander Gutfraind \(Sasha\)]

There is a peculiar problem with this card:
I believe its ID has changed, and hence the driver
included in 2.2.X kernel does not work with it any longer.
You need to upgrade to 2.4.2-ac series kernel.

More details are available:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0103/msg00507.html

Although I am a linux newbie, and not quite sure the
card works correctly for me with 2.4.2-ac16 kernel,
looking though the patch, I am certain that the driver
has been modified.


Hope it helps.

sasha.


On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:

  Are you using the via-rhine driver?  Do you have to use pci-scan.o too?
 
 via-rhine.o on kernel 2.2.17.
 no trace of pci-scan in the source tree! never tried 2.2.18 yet.
 
 
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kernel panic: no init found

[Alexander Gutfraind \(Sasha\)]

Hey there!

whenever i run lilo and install a newly compiled kernel 
(2.2.17 or 2.4.2) to the harddrive. 
For both kernels i get this error message:

Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= parameter ..


what is the problem and what is the solution?


thanks in advance!

sasha.

compiling the kernel

[Alexander Gutfraind \(Sasha\)]

A newbie question:
1) What's System map file, and where is it created
relative to the kernel source directory during
kernel compilation?

2) (perhaps related to (1) above)
Wheneve I try creating a boot floppy,
using 'installkernel ', I get a problem
as follows:

Creating a lilo bootdisk...
mkdir /tmp/boot7403mke2fs -q /dev/fd0mke2fs
1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot7403cd 
/tmp/boot7403cp 
/boot/vmlinuz
/boot/boot.b 
.lilo -C - -EOF2Fatal: geo_comp_addr: 
Cylinder number is too big (1053  1023)
set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot7403
There was a problem creating the boot diskette.  
Please make sure that you inserted the diskette into the
correct drive and that the disketteis not write-protected.

[End of printout]
(I opened the file in win98 notepad, which does not read \n correctly.
Had to add newlines myself)

What's the deal???


3) In windows there is the idea of formating a partition
or a floppy.  Debian installation seem to do something similar.
How does it work in Linux, and what is the utility that does it?


4) When compiling the kernel, does moving functionality into
modules reduces performance, and if so, is it worth cutting
the size of the kernel image?

Thanks a lot!

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