Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:45:55 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): install and learn to use the kernel-package package, and make-kpkg utility. It will make your life a lot easier. A related request from another (fairly) recent Debian user (with a poor memory): I am aware that the above-requested advice has been asked for and answered many times. How about posting, at regular intervals, an FAQ which lists some basic URLs that point to the wealth of published information on using Debian. Including access to the linux.debian.user archives (with tips for searching the archives - if that needs to be spelled out). Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
--- Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about posting, at regular intervals, an FAQ which lists some basic URLs that point to the wealth of published information on using Debian. That would be a tall order indeed, given the sheer volume of information we receive each month on this list. Assuming you keep mbox archives yourself from the list, then I would suggest a simple awk script could do this. Including access to the linux.debian.user archives (with tips for searching the archives - if that needs to be spelled out). Well, there is already a search feature to this list, although I suspect it might not be as comprehensive as to catalougue URLs. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
Jeff -- I ran into a kernel panic problem when installing 2.6.14 as well. If you're sure that you've compiled the generic IDE drivers and the filesystem drivers that you're using for your root filesytem into the kernel, check that Advanced parition selection is not compiled at all. Using menuconfig, this is under: File systems - Parition Types - Advanced partition selection If it was previously selected, recompile without it and see it you can boot. If this doesn't work, we'll need more details about the messages you're getting before the panic. Let me know if this helped. I'm curious. martin On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Jeff Lucas wrote: I've been trying to install an update from linux-2.4.27-2-k7 to linux-2.6.14.2. But when I install the kernel package that I built and reboot to linux-2.6.14.2 it brings up a kernel panic. When I created the menu config file I made sure that all filesystems where to be installed in the package and not as modules. I also built the IDE chipset and SCSI into the package. Nothing has worked so far. I am a BRAND NEW user to linux and I'm using debian GNU/Linux 3.1. I need detailed info if possible. Thanx Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
Jeff Lucas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been trying to install an update from linux-2.4.27-2-k7 to linux-2.6.14.2. But when I install the kernel package that I built and reboot to linux-2.6.14.2 it brings up a kernel panic. When I created the menu config file I made sure that all filesystems where to be installed in the package and not as modules. I also built the IDE chipset and SCSI into the package. Nothing has worked so far. I am a BRAND NEW user to linux and I'm using debian GNU/Linux 3.1. I need detailed info if possible. Jeff, You to make sure you are aware, the 2.6 kernel is available as a package in Debian 3.1 (I assume you are on sarge, ie the stable distribution). Is there a good reason you don't want to use the prepackage 2.6 kernel? /Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
Jeff Lucas wrote: I've been trying to install an update from linux-2.4.27-2-k7 to linux-2.6.14.2. But when I install the kernel package that I built and reboot to linux-2.6.14.2 it brings up a kernel panic. When I created the menu config file I made sure that all filesystems where to be installed in the package and not as modules. I also built the IDE chipset and SCSI into the package. Nothing has worked so far. I am a BRAND NEW user to linux and I'm using debian GNU/Linux 3.1. I need detailed info if possible. Thanx Jeff Compiling the kernel oneself is not for the light-hearted :^) In theory, it is easy if you follow the instructions. In practice, is looking for trouble, unless you know what you are doing. I don't want to disencourage learning and getting experience, but I suggest that you use a prepackaged kernel image, instead. Once you get a Debian-packaged standard 2.6 kernel working, you can fiddle to your heart's content with a kernel.org source, and try to compile it. That way, you 1) already have a 2.6 kernel running (your #1 objective, I guess) , and 2) know that if your compiled kernel doesn't boot, it is because of some configuration mistake you made, and not some other weird thing that prevents such a kernel version from booting in your specific machine. , and 3) take advantage of the APT packaging system that is an important part of the reasons one uses Debian in first place. HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Basajaun wrote: Compiling the kernel oneself is not for the light-hearted :^) In theory, it is easy if you follow the instructions. In practice, is looking for trouble, unless you know what you are doing. I don't want to disencourage learning and getting experience, but I suggest that you use a prepackaged kernel image, instead. Or, if you want to compile from source your own kernel, please use a packaged kernel *source*. Debian's has a lot of patches in it. Same for RedHat/Fedora, etc. Refer to the kernel-tree-version packages in Debian unstable and testing. AND, install and learn to use the kernel-package package, and make-kpkg utility. It will make your life a lot easier. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
