Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I suggest you tar up your data, change the partition layout, untar it and change /etc/fstab. Thank you - I will do that today and report back on how I get on. Then boot with an explicit root= parameter (for your new root partition) Can you expand on that step

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I suggest you tar up your data, change the partition layout, untar it and change /etc/fstab. Thank you - I will do that today and report back on how I get on. Happy to report that it all worked beautifully, and the upgrade to 2.6.32-2 now

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-16 08:16]: Can you expand on that step a bit? It seems to me that I am already booting with an explicit root= parameter. setenv bootargs_root 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2' Obviously I need to adjust to the new root partition, but do I need to do

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-16 09:09]: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 29BE5D2268FD549F W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems The

[Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread John Winters
A follow up on an old problem. I have resisted upgrading my Sheevaplug to 2.6.32-2 because of the problem recorded below - I didn't want to do it until I knew I could spare the time. Last weekend my Sheevaplug died (broken PSU apparently). I've bought a new one and transferred the system over.

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-15 17:42]: Exactly the same problem again - the new kernel won't boot with the boot loader complaining about Bad Magic Number. This time however the renaming trick didn't work. I've gone backwards and forwards a few times but it just won't boot

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-15 17:42]: Exactly the same problem again - the new kernel won't boot with the boot loader complaining about Bad Magic Number. This time however the renaming trick didn't work. I've gone backwards and forwards a few times

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-15 19:27]: I think I may have worked out what the problem is. As I mentioned in a separate e-mail to you, my SD card has only two partitions instead of the three recommended by your installation instructions, and I assumed when I re-read the