Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-08-01 Thread Ian Las
>> All my trials ended with kernel panic. >> >> Below the end of the message log: >> >> Major devices are: ramdisk (0001) fd (0002) ide0 (0003) sd (0008) sd (0041) >> sd ( >> 0042) sd (0043) sd (0044) >> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT] >> ...Image loaded into memory, entry @ 0xfc31 >> Setting

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-30 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Ian Las wrote: > > > --- Michael Cree schrieb am Fr, 30.7.2010: > > >> > >> Well, no, it looks to me like he has to use MILO, as he mentions a > >> 164LX with AlphaBIOS and a 164UX which only has ARCSBIOS. > > >Fair enough.  Obviously a better description of the p

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-30 Thread Ian Las
--- Michael Cree schrieb am Fr, 30.7.2010: >> >> Well, no, it looks to me like he has to use MILO, as he mentions a >> 164LX with AlphaBIOS and a 164UX which only has ARCSBIOS. >Fair enough.  Obviously a better description of the problem is required from >the >initial reporter. >Cheers >Mic

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 30/07/2010, at 1:25 PM, Matt Turner wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Michael Cree wrote: On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel >= 2.6.23

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: >> >> Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works >> withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel >= 2.6.23 >> does not work for a 164UX system. >> >> W

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel >= 2.6.23 does not work for a 164UX system. What is the reason for the problem and any chance to fix it in the

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Ian Las wrote: > > Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works > withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel >= 2.6.23 does > not work for a 164UX system. > > What is the reason for the problem and any chance to f

RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Ian Las
ieb am Fr, 18.6.2010: Von: Uwe Schindler Betreff: RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel An: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Datum: Freitag, 18. Juni, 2010 06:55 Uhr As far as I know, some time after 2.6.8, the kernel file format changed a little bit that needed a newer aboot loa

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 06:17:39PM +0200, Piotrek Gliźniewicz wrote: > This did the trick - it shrunk the initrd.img from 9 MB to about 3 MB. > Now I'm running 2.6.26 with Lenny. I installed the KDE packages and it > works flawless (after some Xorg configuration - it didn't want to run it > a

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
W dniu 2010-06-23 00:28, Lennart Sorensen pisze: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:32:28PM +0200, Piotrek Gliźniewicz wrote: I've tried the uuid approach - the effect is the same - 2.6.18 runs, 2.6.26. But I managed to find the real issue. MILO fails to load the initrd image: "initdisk too large, would

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:32:28PM +0200, Piotrek Gliźniewicz wrote: > I've tried the uuid approach - the effect is the same - 2.6.18 runs, > 2.6.26. But I managed to find the real issue. MILO fails to load the > initrd image: "initdisk too large, would overwrite kernel.", apparently > the sa

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-22 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
Hi, the best is to not use the (I call it "deprecated") old-style linux device names. Use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ for the specification of the root filesystem (each filesystem has a unique ID assigned on creation). Alternatively assign a name to the file system using tune2fs/e2label and specify

RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-21 Thread Uwe Schindler
l Message- > From: Piotrek Gliźniewicz [mailto:gli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:04 PM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel > > >>> Another option: Could you try "linux-image-2.6-al

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-21 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
Another option: Could you try "linux-image-2.6-alpha-legacy" instead of -generic? This uses another start address that may be needed for some machines and MILO. But as you have read from my prev message below, I don't think any kernel after 2.6.22 would work. As you are trying .18, you should have

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-20 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
Another option: Could you try "linux-image-2.6-alpha-legacy" instead of -generic? This uses another start address that may be needed for some machines and MILO. But as you have read from my prev message below, I don't think any kernel after 2.6.22 would work. As you are trying .18, you should have

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:03:27AM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > Another option: Could you try "linux-image-2.6-alpha-legacy" instead of > -generic? This uses another start address that may be needed for some > machines and MILO. But as you have read from my prev message below, I > don't think any

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
W dniu 2010-06-18 09:03, Uwe Schindler pisze: Another option: Could you try "linux-image-2.6-alpha-legacy" instead of -generic? This uses another start address that may be needed for some machines and MILO. But as you have read from my prev message below, I don't think any kernel after 2.6.22

RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Uwe Schindler
5 AM > To: 'debian-alpha@lists.debian.org' > Subject: RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel > > As far as I know, some time after 2.6.8, the kernel file format changed a > little > bit that needed a newer aboot loader, too (see changelog of aboot). Since

RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Uwe Schindler
..@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:39 AM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel > > W dniu 2010-06-18 01:11, Matt Turner pisze: > > 2010/6/17 Piotr Gliźniewicz: > >> Hi, > >> > >

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-17 Thread Piotrek Gliźniewicz
W dniu 2010-06-18 01:11, Matt Turner pisze: > 2010/6/17 Piotr Gliźniewicz: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install Debian on my 164LX with AlphaBIOS. Since the newest >> DVD I can boot from MILO (I'm using the one provided on the Woody DVD) is >> Sarge, I installed it and begun upgrading to Etch (as

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-17 Thread Matt Turner
2010/6/17 Piotr Gliźniewicz : > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian on my 164LX with AlphaBIOS. Since the newest > DVD I can boot from MILO (I'm using the one provided on the Woody DVD) is > Sarge, I installed it and begun upgrading to Etch (as advised in the Lenny > readme). I've done a clean, de

Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-17 Thread Piotr Gliźniewicz
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my 164LX with AlphaBIOS. Since the newest DVD I can boot from MILO (I'm using the one provided on the Woody DVD) is Sarge, I installed it and begun upgrading to Etch (as advised in the Lenny readme). I've done a clean, default install of Sarge. Then I upgra