Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Williams wrote: > I seem to have resolved the issue above after rebooting. Congrats. I planned to propose lsmod today, but your exploration work was faster. Nevertheless, i wonder why the loop module was not loaded when you had the difficulties with your script runs. Have a nice day

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Colin Williams
I seem to have resolved the issue above after rebooting. Thanks for helping to debug Thomas and everyone. On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Colin Williams wrote: > > > -- > > > > Do you have a file > > /dev/loop-control > > ? > >

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Colin Williams
> -- > > Do you have a file > /dev/loop-control > ? > > What is listed by > > ls -ld /dev/loop* > colin@M00974055-VM:~$ sudo ls /dev/loop-control [sudo] password for colin: ls: cannot access '/dev/loop-control': No such file

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread David Wright
On Sat 07 Aug 2021 at 05:03:10 (-0700), Colin Williams wrote: > >The error message of losetup does not match this theory. > > Re-reading http://ix.io/3v6K and it does appear that possibly > /mnt/src/host/ does exist based on some of the debugging output. > Thanks for making me look back. I made

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Williams wrote: > http://ix.io/3vfj Where i read +++ sudo losetup --show -f /mnt/host/source/src/build/ima ges/kukui/R94-14125.0.2021_08_07_0451-a1/chromiumos_base_ image.bin losetup: cannot find an unused loop device ++ lb_dev= ++ sudo losetup -l -a +++ sudo partx -v -d

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Colin Williams
Hi Thomas, >The error message of losetup does not match this theory. Re-reading http://ix.io/3v6K and it does appear that possibly /mnt/src/host/ does exist based on some of the debugging output. Thanks for making me look back. I made this "theory" on trying to `ls

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Colin Williams
Hi Thomas, It's not entirely clear that what I was trying to express was understood. Then in short: 1) A file ./src/build/images/kukui/R94-14125.0.2021_08_05_1510-a1/chromiumos_base_image.bin is created 2) It seems that commands use a variable called GCLIENT_ROOT and it's value is set to

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Williams: > 3) When trying to create the loopback device the script tries to use a > path > /mnt/host/src/rc/build/images/kukui/R94-14125.0.2021_08_05_1510-a1/chromiumos_base_image.bin > which does not exist The error message of losetup does not match this theory. Did you make sure

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Williams wrote: > http://ix.io/3v3i At least this shows an impressive partition table. (Among them 5 partitions of size 512 bytes.) > http://ix.io/3v6K (Best to be downloaded and viewed in a text editor.) > I believe the issues arise in >

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 09:48:29PM -0700, Colin Williams wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In hindsight after looking at this much too late there were many > mistakes in my initial mail. The issue may or may not be debian > related and involves at least analyzing the script. There is a claim > in the

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-06 Thread Colin Williams
Hello everyone, In hindsight after looking at this much too late there were many mistakes in my initial mail. The issue may or may not be debian related and involves at least analyzing the script. There is a claim in the documentation that Then I'll make another attempt to further expose my

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
there a way to inquire the running kernel's configuration ?) The Wanderer wrote: > Debian started putting the kernel > config on-disk instead, under the filename /boot/config-`uname -r`. Ah yes. That exists here and says CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m (Last year i igot missing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_L

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-05 Thread The Wanderer
kage%3Alinux+BLK_DEV_LOOP%3Dn=0 > but lots of "y" and "m". > > (Wasn't there a way to inquire the running kernel's configuration ?) AFAIK, that's /proc/config.gz; it's present only if a specific Kconfig setting is enabled, and Debian stopped enabling that setting q

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Can someone tell me where I should look for the kernel for the > loopback setting? Quite exactly a year ago i learned the hard way that it's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP which on amd64 should be set to "m" to get /dev/loop*. See its description at

Re: losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-05 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 04:36:59AM -0700, Colin Williams wrote: > I'm running bullseye / debian 11.0 testing. I have been running a > script that is supposed to write a filesystem image (for chromiumOS). > In short I'm getting the following > > losetup: cannot find an unused loop device > partx:

losetup: cannot find an unused loop device , kernel config of loopback device

2021-08-05 Thread Colin Williams
: No such file or directory Or for a greater description http://ix.io/3v3i Looking up the error someone mentioned that the kernel needed to be configured to support loopback devices. I was curious where the kernel config is located. I looked at https://wiki.debian.org/KernelFAQ and it seems to be extremely

Re: Bug Report? - T14 Microphone Issue - Possible Missing Kernel Config?

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 20:15:13, Jonathan wrote: > Good Evening, > > I was attempting to get my microphone working on my T14 AMD as it is the > only non-functioning piece I was aware of. Browsing possible solutions I was > shown the following could fix the issue if added to th

Bug Report? - T14 Microphone Issue - Possible Missing Kernel Config?

2020-10-27 Thread Jonathan
Good Evening, I was attempting to get my microphone working on my T14 AMD as it is the only non-functioning piece I was aware of. Browsing possible solutions I was shown the following could fix the issue if added to the kernel config: CONFIG_SND_SOC_AMD_RENOIR=m

Re: Getting Debian Kernel Config for 5.4 LTS Kernel

2020-10-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 02:33:43AM +0200, Janis Hamme wrote: > Am 04.10.20 um 00:35 schrieb deloptes: > > cp /boot/config-..xxx .config > > make .oldconfig > > make -j`nproc` bindeb-pkg > > The oldconfig hassle is something that I'd rather like to avoid, there are a > lot changes between

Re: Getting Debian Kernel Config for 5.4 LTS Kernel

2020-10-03 Thread David
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 11:34, Janis Hamme wrote: > I think I found a proper way to do it. It turns out the buster-backports repo > actually has the Debian sources for all kernel versions that were released > in the past. Maybe the steps are useful for others as well: Hi, thank you very much for

Re: Getting Debian Kernel Config for 5.4 LTS Kernel

2020-10-03 Thread Janis Hamme
Am 04.10.20 um 00:35 schrieb deloptes: > cp /boot/config-..xxx .config > make .oldconfig > make -j`nproc` bindeb-pkg > > as mentioned in https://wiki.debian.org/BuildADebianKernelPackage > > After make .oldconfig you will be asked questions about new stuff. The oldconfig hassle is

Re: Getting Debian Kernel Config for 5.4 LTS Kernel

2020-10-03 Thread deloptes
Janis Hamme wrote: > I'd like to build the vanilla 5.4.69 LTS Kernel for one of my Debian > machines (Buster). > > The easiest way seems to build the Kernel with the built in "make > deb-pkg" target. Since I do not really want to go through all the config > changes, > my plan was to get a 5.4

Getting Debian Kernel Config for 5.4 LTS Kernel

2020-10-03 Thread Janis Hamme
Hi, I'd like to build the vanilla 5.4.69 LTS Kernel for one of my Debian machines (Buster). The easiest way seems to build the Kernel with the built in "make deb-pkg" target. Since I do not really want to go through all the config changes, my plan was to get a 5.4 config for amd64 from

Can't enable interrupt remapping in Debian Wheezy kernel config

2014-01-17 Thread Sum Guy
Hi, I'm trying to enable interrupt remapping and DMA remapping to try and use PCI passthrough as described here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM I'm following the guide for rebuilding an official Debian kernel package (the parts under the Add a patch to linux

Re: Can't enable interrupt remapping in Debian Wheezy kernel config

2014-01-17 Thread Sum Guy
Also, apologies for double posting this, I only just found that the first time I sent this went through as well :P On 17 Jan 2014 19:28, Sum Guy enges...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to enable interrupt remapping and DMA remapping to try and use PCI passthrough as described here:

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-11 Thread Tech Geek
Sven, AFAIK the kernel in the installer is split into many small packages from the regular linux-image package. So the possible differences are version skews when a newer kernel hits the archive, and missing modules that are not packaged for the installer. You are right. I discovered that the

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-11 21:52 +0200, Tech Geek wrote: AFAIK the kernel in the installer is split into many small packages from the regular linux-image package. So the possible differences are version skews when a newer kernel hits the archive, and missing modules that are not packaged for the

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:41:32 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: It should be available at /boot/config-`uname -r` That would be true after the system installation finishes. What I am looking for is the config file for the kernel runs the installation process. For some reasons I suspect that there might

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
difference between the kernel that installs Debian and the kernel that gets installed on the hard drive. This might indeed be the case, however you will generally not be able to tell that from the kernel config. AFAIK the kernel in the installer is split into many small packages from the regular

Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
Hello, I was wondering where can I find (or view) the .config file for the kernel (vmlinuz) that comes on the Debian Squeeze install discs. I tried searching on the internet but nothing came up. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 07/08/2011 03:58 PM, Tech Geek wrote: Hello, I was wondering where can I find (or view) the .config file for the kernel (vmlinuz) that comes on the Debian Squeeze install discs. I tried searching on the internet but nothing came up. It should be available at /boot/config-`uname -r` --

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
It should be available at /boot/config-`uname -r` That would be true after the system installation finishes. What I am looking for is the config file for the kernel runs the installation process. For some reasons I suspect that there might be some difference between the kernel that installs

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Jul 2011 at 11:58:00 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: Hello, I was wondering where can I find (or view) the .config file for the kernel (vmlinuz) that comes on the Debian Squeeze install discs. I tried searching on the internet but nothing came up. It is in the boot directory of the

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
It is in the boot directory of the linux-image package, which is on the first disk or in the packages section at www.debian.org. So, from what you just said, it means that both the kernels, one that runs from the install disc and the one that gets installed on the hard drive are exactly the

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Jul 2011 at 14:26:25 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: It is in the boot directory of the linux-image package, which is on the first disk or in the packages section at www.debian.org. So, from what you just said, it means that both the kernels, one that runs from the install disc and the

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/08/11 at 02:26pm, Tech Geek wrote: It is in the boot directory of the linux-image package, which is on the first disk or in the packages section at www.debian.org. So, from what you just said, it means that both the kernels, one that runs from the install disc and the one that gets

Re: sysctl vs kernel .config

2011-04-25 Thread green
Jim Green wrote at 2011-04-23 22:53 -0500: first is run time and the latter is compile time, but what is the difference here, is one of the other's subset? do their parameters overlap? which is the preferred file to change? changing .config requires a recompile. I suppose that if a setting

sysctl vs kernel .config

2011-04-23 Thread Jim Green
Hello debianers: today i successfully compiled 2.38.4 kernel using make-kmkg and fixed the hibernate can't resume issue for kernel 2.38-2, got a couple questions here: first is run time and the latter is compile time, but what is the difference here, is one of the other's subset? do their

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
ow...@netptc.net put forth on 10/22/2010 8:15 PM: Actually Amdahl's Law IS a law of diminishing returns but is intended to be applied to hardware, not software. The usual application is to compute the degree to which adding another processor increases the processing power of the system

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 10/22/2010 8:48 PM: Bah, humbug. Instead of a quad-core at lower GHz, I just got my wife a dual-core at higher speed. Not to mention the fact that for desktop use 2 higher clocked cores will yield faster application performance (think of the single threaded Flash

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-23 Thread owens
Original Message From: s...@hardwarefreak.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:13:06 -0500 ow...@netptc.net put forth on 10/22/2010 8:15 PM: Actually Amdahl's Law IS a law of diminishing returns

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reidrei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32. Is that just a reasonable number that's never been updated? Or is

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32, meaning it will only use the first 32 cores that it sees.

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 10/22/2010 2:00 AM: On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reidrei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32. Is that just a

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500 On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reidrei

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500 Correct. The amount of effort needed for cross-CPU

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:44:39 -0500 On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:34:19 ow...@netptc.net wrote: In fact IIRC the additional overhead follows the square of the number of CPUs. I seem to recall this was called Amdahl's Law after Gene Amdahl of IBM (and later his own company) Either that's not it, or there's more than one

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
ow...@netptc.net put forth on 10/22/2010 5:18 PM: Ron et al See the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law Larry Amdahl's law doesn't apply to capacity systems, only capability systems. Capacity systems are limited almost exclusively by memory, IPC/coherence, and I/O

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32,

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
Original Message From: rei...@bellatlantic.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:05:49 -0400 On Friday 22 October 2010 11:34:19 ow...@netptc.net wrote: In fact IIRC the additional overhead

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 07:08 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian

Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32, meaning it will only use the first 32 cores that it sees. For old Debian hands like me,

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote:  But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32.  Is that just a reasonable number that's never been updated?  Or is there some complication that arises after 32

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
to experiment some, but that's a requirement when rolling one's own kernels.  Welcome to the club.  It's rarely easy. ;) Asking on here isn't my first attempt at figuring things out. My kernel config work is based on Greg KM's book The Linux Kernel In A Nutshell. So, not only have I read the help

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: How do you read the possible cpu frequencies? Your kernel needs cpufreq support and ondemand, powersave, etc. governors; check with cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies cat

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/30/2010 9:04 AM: BTW, I'm curious as to your motivations for this. Is this basically a Windows can do 800MHz, so $deity dammit, Linux should be able to do it as well! thing? Not as such. More like a my processor is supposed to scale from 800Mhz to 1.6Ghz, and

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
or doesn't have the tables for Atom CPUs, or both. This is a kernel config option. r...@hpm210:/home/arthur/Misc/Linux/2.6.34-1# linuxinfo Linux HPm210 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1 04:59:47 UTC 2010 Two Intel Unknown 1666MHz processors, 6650.42 total bogomips, 1011M RAM Strangely, that's

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/28/2010 11:14 PM: In make menuconfig: snip These last two are probably the reason for the unknown, especially given you're running 2.6.34 which has all the CPU models currently on the

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
How do you read the possible cpu frequencies? Your kernel needs cpufreq support and ondemand, powersave, etc. governors; check with cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors cat

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/29/2010 12:01 PM: Things are running nicely, but the problem I hoped to resolve hasn't been. Namely, the lowest frequency my cpu can reach is 1Ghz... instead of the 800Mhz that it reaches on windows and in the spec sheets. Advice on how to proceed from here is

Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-28 Thread Arthur Machlas
this cpu thing and hoping someone can weigh in with some friendly advice. The help in kernel config says things will run better if I don't enable smp on a single cpu system. Hence, the question to you, lazyweb, with much appreciation in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Robert Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] It works regarding smartctl but *not* using vga=x or uvesafb, which is a severe problem compared to using smartctl. For me the

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. This in regard to trying to get smartctl

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jochen Schulz wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom: But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. This in regard to

kernel config: where is libata?

2008-10-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I can't use the Debian (Sid) kernels because VGA=nnn does not work on my box: gets 'invalid videomode'. I can use Debian kernels with uvesafb but its companion v86d dies with my new GeForce 6200 AGP after a while. But all works well when I roll my own kernel. Except then I cannot use

Re: kernel config: where is libata?

2008-10-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I can't use the Debian (Sid) kernels because VGA=nnn does not work on my box: gets 'invalid videomode'. I can use Debian kernels with uvesafb but its companion v86d dies with my new GeForce 6200 AGP after a while. But all works well when I roll my own kernel.

Kernel config uevent path

2008-07-11 Thread David Baron
Trying to compile a 2.6.25.8 kernel. The make oldconfig asks numerous questions, mostly about newly supported new hardware and options that are probably not relevant or helpful to me. However, it did ask for a uevent driver path which wants to default to /sbin/hotplug This does not exist

Re: Kernel config uevent path

2008-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-11 09:58 +0200, David Baron wrote: Trying to compile a 2.6.25.8 kernel. The make oldconfig asks numerous questions, mostly about newly supported new hardware and options that are probably not relevant or helpful to me. However, it did ask for a uevent driver path which wants to

Re: kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 09:42, Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. Home-rolled or built-by-Debian? Are you sure SMP is enabled? What does uname -v say? Unfortunately the kernel doesn't recognize my dual core

kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. Unfortunately the kernel doesn't recognize my dual core processor: $ dmesg | grep -i cpu CPU has 2 num_cores Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 34344 bytes of per cpu data Initializing

Re: kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Bernd Prager
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:58:28 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 09:42, Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. Home-rolled or built-by-Debian? Home-rolled Are you sure SMP is

Switching kernel config from x86_64 to i686

2007-10-28 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I made the mistake of taking a default or selecting the wrong kernel (my machine is an AMD X2). So I now have a 64 bit kernel (x86_64), which I have read is transitional. Since so many packages are only 32 bit, my life has gotten complex trying to make everything work and with contemplations

Re: Switching kernel config from x86_64 to i686

2007-10-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:17:29PM -0400, Frederick N. Brier wrote: I made the mistake of taking a default or selecting the wrong kernel (my machine is an AMD X2). So I now have a 64 bit kernel (x86_64), which I have read is transitional. Since so many packages are only 32 bit, my life

Re: Switching kernel config from x86_64 to i686

2007-10-28 Thread Orestes Leal
In the root of the kernel sources do a make menuconfig, goto processor type and features and select the wanted option, recompile the kernel, install the kernel, update the bootloader and you're done, for the other stuff I don't know because me english it's a little scarse (yet), good luck friend.

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:54 PM, yong lee wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be .config. Then I ran 'make-kpkg

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Julian De Marchi wrote: Try this cp /boot/.config /usr/src/linux Then when you load your kernel menu, go to load alternative config file. Then input the file name .config. This should help! What I usually do is copy the .config file to the kernel build

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-20 Thread Orestes leal
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:16:53 -0700 David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Julian De Marchi wrote: Try this cp /boot/.config /usr/src/linux Then when you load your kernel menu, go to load alternative config file. Then input the file name .config.

how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-19 Thread yong lee
Hi, I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be .config. Then I ran 'make-kpkg kernel_image' to build the kernel. But when I reboot

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-19 Thread Julian De Marchi
yong lee wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be .config. Then I ran 'make-kpkg kernel_image' to build the kernel.

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-19 Thread Orestes leal
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:54:37 -0700 (PDT) yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on my experience you miss one important step, before do any command do a make oldconfig with your config in place in the kernel tree, answer all the questions and do a make menuconfig and the others commands, hope

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-19 Thread Julian De Marchi
Hey mate, My mistake, you original post you had the right idea. You already have the .config file as you got it from /boot/'uname -r'.config (/boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be .config.) The only step you missed is to load the alternative

Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

2007-06-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
On 2007-06-19, yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be .config. Then I ran 'make-kpkg

Kernel config question on Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00, Intel 945pm Express, SATA drive on Dell e1505 Inspiron

2006-11-18 Thread Marc D Ronell
Marc D Ronell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is it currently possible to configure a linux kernel to directly (without an initrd image) boot from a Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00 drive which I believe is a SATA-I serial ATA drive. I believe my machine is using an Intel 945pm chipset to

What's wrong with this kernel config?

2006-07-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single 500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I made for 2.6.17.3 kernel panics at the point where it is looking for the hard disk (which it cannot

Re: What's wrong with this kernel config?

2006-07-06 Thread Matthew Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:05, Brian C wrote: Hi, I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single 500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-20 Thread Jon Dowland
. Personally, I think the idea of kernel-config-* packages is a good one. Yeah I think it's a good idea. Please do :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-20 Thread D. Michael McFarland
think it won't be perceived as nitpicking. Personally, I think the idea of kernel-config-* packages is a good one. Yeah I think it's a good idea. Please do :) I've been corresponding with Andrew Pimlott, who submitted the bug in July. He's reopened it. Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) would be a good idea. Is there a wishlist bug open to this effect? If not, would you be interested in filing one? [1] I've been bitten by the non-standard behaviour of the kernel packages, too: namely, the fact there's no explicit relationship between

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:20:08AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) would be a good idea. It seems like the easiest solution would be to simply ensure

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:01:44PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: It seems like the easiest solution would be to simply ensure that the distributed kernels are compiled to put config.gz in /proc. That would certainly remove any ambiguity about which config file to look at. That is one solution,

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:08:34AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) would be a good idea. Is there a wishlist bug

Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding to linux-image-2.6.14-2-amd64-k8. According to /usr/share/doc/linux-source-2.6.14/README.Debian,

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread Robert Kopp
--- D. Michael McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding to linux-image-2.6.14-2-amd64-k8. According

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Robert Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- D. Michael McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding to

linux kernel .config

2005-09-15 Thread velkrox
gente: baje el kernel 'linux-2.4.31.tar.bz2', lo descomprimi, me creo la carpeta 'linux-2.4.31', entre a ese dir, hice un 'make menuconfig', y luego de configurarlo, me hice una copia del .config en .config-backup. ahora supongamos que segui moficicando el kernel, no me gusto, y quiero volver

Re: linux kernel .config

2005-09-15 Thread Iñaki
El Jueves, 15 de Septiembre de 2005 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: || gente: baje el kernel 'linux-2.4.31.tar.bz2', lo descomprimi, me creo la || carpeta 'linux-2.4.31', entre a ese dir, hice un 'make menuconfig', y || luego de configurarlo, me hice una copia del .config en .config-backup. ||

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