Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-10 Thread Arthur Machlas
Ughn.. think google just discarded my post instead of sending. Don't want to retype; but here's the link: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in > the kernel tarball that works fine. I believe but can't confirm that the > .debs generated by the makefile in the kernel tarball will properly invoke > the postint scripts that are used to

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-10 09:18 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in > the kernel tarball that works fine. That target is called deb-pkg, i.e. you type "make deb-pkg" and get a nice Debian package. > I believe but can't confirm t

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110209223754.5fa03...@ws82.int.tlc>, Dan Serban wrote: >I ask. What is the "real" ... "accepted" ... and "suggested" method that I >follow, I don't understand why kernel-package looks deprecated, or what >have you, but any information would be appreciated. If you want to use Debian's config

Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Serban
Ages ago, when amd64 wasn't part of the debian collection, I used to compile kernels myself using make-kpkg. This worked wonderfully, when I had to debug driver patches etc. (all is now of course stable). Since then I've forgotten this process, but this is not my problem. I wanted to test a fix

Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org [SOLVED]

2009-10-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 21 2009, Gregor Galwas wrote: > The only problem to be solved was the initrd. it has NOT been > generated by dpkg during the installation. > so I generated it using mkinitramfs -c -k 2.6.32-rc5. worked > fine. update-grub - worked fine as well. ,[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) ] | --i

Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org [SOLVED]

2009-10-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Gregor Galwas wrote: > Hey, > > Thx everybody for your quick answers and friendly help. > > You were right. I removed all Xen options from the kernel config and > > linux-image-2.6.32-rc5_20091016-2_amd64.deb > > has been built. > Installing it with "dpkg -i ..." worked fine. > The only problem

Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org [SOLVED]

2009-10-20 Thread Gregor Galwas
Hey, Thx everybody for your quick answers and friendly help. You were right. I removed all Xen options from the kernel config and linux-image-2.6.32-rc5_20091016-2_amd64.deb has been built. Installing it with "dpkg -i ..." worked fine. The only problem to be solved was the initrd. it has NOT b

Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org

2009-10-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Well, firstly, if you are going to be using the buildpackage target, instead of the far faster kernel_image target, you should either configure /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, adding your name and email, and have that in a keyring your gpg knows about, or pass the --us and --uc arguments on

compiling a kernel from kernel.org

2009-10-20 Thread Gregor Galwas
hello, in the new last days I've been trying to compile a recent kernel from kernel.org I fetched a kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ mainline: 2.6.32-rc5 2009-10-16 [Full Source] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.32-rc5.tar.bz2 unpacked it using

Re: Compiling a Nvidia module [was Re: Compiling a kernel]

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 25 2006 06:39, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and > > > grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia.

Re: Compiling a Nvidia module [was Re: Compiling a kernel]

2006-10-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and > > grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia. I ran that, and in > > less than two minutes I was up a

Re: Compiling a Nvidia module [was Re: Compiling a kernel]

2006-10-25 Thread cothrige
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Apparently the binary installer from NVidia messes with the libraries on > the system and is not the recommended method for installing. > > Read http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ > > The Debian way is certainly a lot easier. Now where

Compiling a Nvidia module [was Re: Compiling a kernel]

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and > grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia. I ran that, and in > less than two minutes I was up and running. No complaints from Debian > and no complaints from NVi

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-24 Thread Michael D. Norwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You have gotten a couple DIFFERENT approaches to installing a kernel on Debian. >At least one comment should send up a warning: Yes, a level-minded user. >On compiling with --initrd, I finally drank the coolade last year. Before I tried to have no >modules, compiling n

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread cothrige
* Jameson C. Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You have gotten a couple DIFFERENT approaches to installing a kernel on > Debian. > At least one comment should send up a warning: > if the approach becomes too intricate, or requires specialization, > very likely you read minute details that you shoul

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread David A.
I look here when I compile my own kernel: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ /David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread Jameson C. Burt
You have gotten a couple DIFFERENT approaches to installing a kernel on Debian. At least one comment should send up a warning: if the approach becomes too intricate, or requires specialization, very likely you read minute details that you should never need learn (unless you're creating Debian packa

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread Yura
John O'Hagan wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 18:02, cothrige wrote: [...] In the past, as a Slackware user, I never installed an OS where I didn't immediately compile a new kernel. Slack uses a 2.4 kernel, and I use some peripheral items which seem to require, or at least greatly prefer a 2

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > initrd's are especially useful for distros, because a kernel with all > stuff compiled in is not an option (too big), but you still need some > of the modules very early in the boot process, when the root filesystem > is not accessible yet. For your

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
cothrige wrote: * Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). If using GRUB, remember by default the selecti

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never used initrd, at least not when I have compiled a kernel. > To be entirely honest I have never fully understood just what it > does. I was under the impression it was for things like booting from > reiser fs and having to load modules to do it. H

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Installing the kernel-package generated by make-kpkg will automatically > detect > and update grub, and add itself to menu.list. How easy is that? Now that it is a nifty feature. I suppose there is certainly something to be said for the Debian appr

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Gilles Mocellin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This modprobe.conf is modularized in several files (you can add one) > in /etc/modprobe.d/. Ahh yes, I see that. I would think I could run 'generate-modprobe.conf > ~/modprobe.conf' and then split the info up as I need it. Shouldn't be too impos

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after > a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , > make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). > > If using GRUB, remember by default the selection menu is hi

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). If using GRUB, remember by default the selection menu is hidden. You'll need to comment out the "hiddenmenu

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 23 October 2006 00:36, cothrige wrote: > * John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>[snip summary of Debian kernel compilation] > Will I still have to configure grub? And will update-grub work or > will I have to manually edit menu.lst? [...] Installing the kernel-package generated

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le dimanche 22 octobre 2006 16:43, cothrige a écrit : > * Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > [snip] > > > Then make your initrd if needed and tweak as needed, verify /etc/modules > > is what you want it to be and you should be good to go. Cross your > > fingers and reboot. > > T

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/06 09:36, cothrige wrote: > * John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi Patrick, > > Hello John, > [snip] >> If you are recompiling a kernel with the same version name, you must >> move /lib/modules/[$KERNEL_VERSION] out of the way (yo

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Tim, [snip] > Then make your initrd if needed and tweak as needed, verify /etc/modules > is what you want it to be and you should be good to go. Cross your > fingers and reboot. This makes me think. Recently I have gotten in the habit, after installi

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Patrick, Hello John, > I always compile my own kernels the Debian (testing) way like this: > > -Install the latest Debian linux-source package (currently > linux-source-2.6.17); or you can use vanilla source as you describe > -Make a symlink /usr/

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread John O'Hagan
On Sunday 22 October 2006 18:02, cothrige wrote: [...] > In the past, as a Slackware user, I never installed an OS where I > didn't immediately compile a new kernel. Slack uses a 2.4 kernel, and > I use some peripheral items which seem to require, or at least greatly > prefer a 2.6 kernel. The pr

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Patrick, Its relatively easy .. and you can make it a bit easier on yourself. Untar from kernel.org in /usr/src be sure ncurses-dev and ncurses are present make menuconfig and configure your kernel now make (or make -j xx, where xx = # of cpu's if > 1) [ fancy gcc hacks go here if your brave

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Seweryn Kokot
For more than a year I compile my kernels the way you described (universal vay) and I have no problems. Of course there is a debian way but it's not a must. Regards, Seweryn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sure this is a really stupid question, but having read through > the reference and searched online (some searches involve such common > terms they never return anything useful) I have really been unable to > find a clear answer. I hope someone here can h

Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
I am sure this is a really stupid question, but having read through the reference and searched online (some searches involve such common terms they never return anything useful) I have really been unable to find a clear answer. I hope someone here can help. In the past, as a Slackware user, I nev

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:02:28AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Joseph Jones wrote: > > >I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the > >newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's > >NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could

Re: Compiling a Kernel - Need ncurses

2003-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:16:25 -0800, "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am once again giving a whirl at compiling a 2.4.22 kernel; this > time on my test box which I am telnetted into so I don't have to > keep switching back and forth via the KV switch.

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 03:00 GMT, Paul Stolp penned: > * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-11 05:43]: >> >> Btw, I just discovered that lilo bug #222098 appears to still be live >> in 1:22.5.8-6. It prevents me from running lilo successfully. So >> caveat emptor and all that ... >

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Stolp
* Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-11 05:43]: > > Btw, I just discovered that lilo bug #222098 appears to still be live in > 1:22.5.8-6. It prevents me from running lilo successfully. So caveat > emptor and all that ... Hmm, same problem here. looked for a bug report, didn't see i

Re: Compiling a Kernel - Need ncurses

2003-12-11 Thread James Williamson
On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 6:16 am, Scarletdown wrote: > I am once again giving a whirl at compiling a 2.4.22 kernel; this > time on my test box which I am telnetted into so I don't have to > keep switching back and forth via the KV switch. > > Anyway, I managed to unpack the tarball and create the sy

Re: Compiling a Kernel - Need ncurses

2003-12-10 Thread Rob Benton
try using libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 00:16, Scarletdown wrote: > I am once again giving a whirl at compiling a 2.4.22 kernel; this time > on my test box which I am telnetted into so I don't have to keep > switching back and forth via the KV switch. > > Anyway, I manage

Compiling a Kernel - Need ncurses

2003-12-10 Thread Scarletdown
I am once again giving a whirl at compiling a 2.4.22 kernel; this time on my test box which I am telnetted into so I don't have to keep switching back and forth via the KV switch. Anyway, I managed to unpack the tarball and create the symbolic link to it.  But when I try make menuconfig, I

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Joseph Jones
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 16:02 GMT, John Foster penned: Joseph Jones wrote: I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Burkhard Woelfel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 20:35, H. S. wrote: > So now if I use mrproper, I *always* save my .config to some other > directory, in my case in a tmp in a user's home. > ->HS That's what I am doing for every kernel I compile, for every one of my mac

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 19:35 GMT, H. S. penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> >> dselect #get latest kernel src package cd >> /usr/src/kernel-source- make mrproper #clean any leftover >> compile stuff > > I tried this a few days ago, but I hadn't read the makefile to know > what mrproper was d

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread H. S.
Monique Y. Herman wrote: dselect #get latest kernel src package cd /usr/src/kernel-source- make mrproper #clean any leftover compile stuff I tried this a few days ago, but I hadn't read the makefile to know what mrproper was doing and I lost my old config file which I had renamed, IIRC, as .conf

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 16:02 GMT, John Foster penned: > Joseph Jones wrote: > >> I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the >> newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my >> laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install >> from. Could anyone

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread John Foster
Joseph Jones wrote: I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could anyone advise me as to how I do this, if possible in relation to the ins

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:00:16PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the > newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's > NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network

Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-09 Thread Joseph Jones
I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could anyone advise me as to how I do this, if possible in relation to the instructions in the newb

Re: kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

2003-04-04 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 23:25:04 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I might need to set " Advanced partition > selection " on and select some > partition types there - but I'm not at all sure (I'm > just curious why it's off) You don't need any "Advanced partition" types en

Re: kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

2003-04-03 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, Thanks for your reply, Elizabeth ! I checked - but the Second extended fs support was allready on. I attached the current filesystem supports. I think I might need to set " Advanced partition selection " on and select some partition types there - but I'm not at all sure (I'm just curious

Re: kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

2003-04-03 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Joris writes: > In case you allready received this question (or even answered ??) I > apologise, but I have seen no reactions, or my own question, so I > guess something has gone wrong > > The thing is, I can't figure out what's option I should choose which > is currently off. As I thought I migh

kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

2003-04-03 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, In case you allready received this question (or even answered ??) I apologise, but I have seen no reactions, or my own question, so I guess something has gone wrong The thing is, I can't figure out what's option I should choose which is currently off. As I thought I might have ch

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:53:43 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > request_module[block_major-3]: Root fs not mounted > UFS Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41 > Please append a correct "root" boot option > kernel panic: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03.41 It looks like you di

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Thanks everybody for the suggestions on a succesfull kernel compilation I now compiled it but it won't boot. I get this error stuff - and I don't know what it means : -- request_module[block_major-3]: Root fs not mounted UFS Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41 Please append a correct

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Ruediger Arp
Am Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:10:08 +0200 schrieb Joris Huizer: > Hello everybody, > > As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod module, I think > I'll have to compile a new kernel. > > What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to get the source, > ofcourse, but next to that ? http:

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:35:10 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod > module, I think I'll have to compile a new kernel. > > What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to > get the source, ofcourse, bu

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod > module, I think I'll have to compile a new kernel. > > What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to > get the source, ofcourse, but next to that ? > > I know allready before the

Re: compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread sean finney
hey joris, here's the first three steps i recommend: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20 # apt-get install kernel-package $ cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package (if you're running woody, you want kernel-source-2.4.18 i believe) debian really treats you well with kernel-compiling utilities and do

compiling a kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod module, I think I'll have to compile a new kernel. What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to get the source, ofcourse, but next to that ? I know allready before the compiling many hardware issues are going to asked.

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-26 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/23/02 19:46, Nathan E Norman wrote: 'man mount' tells you what the options _are_ ... finding out what the options _do_ is a bit more work :) I haven't actually found a great reference for ext3 yet. Thank you. So, 'data=ordered' (default) means that the data is written to the file system

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 18:46:07 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:28:21PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: [data=journal, etc] > > Where might I find more info on the types/benefits of these options? > > 'man mount' tells you what the options _are_ ... finding out what the > opt

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:28:21PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/23/02 18:57, Nathan E Norman wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > > > >>How do I tell what type of mode I currently have > > > >Look in your fstab (or vgrep the output of 'mount') and look at th

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/23/02 18:57, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: How do I tell what type of mode I currently have Look in your fstab (or vgrep the output of 'mount') and look at the options in parens after the "type ext3" bit: if you don't see "data=journa

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/21/02 20:52, Craig Dickson wrote: > >Frank Copeland wrote: > > > >>AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in > >>journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that > >>the bug exists i

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/21/02 20:52, Craig Dickson wrote: Frank Copeland wrote: AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to 2.4.20. You mean "data journ

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Craig Dickson
Frank Copeland wrote: > AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in > journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that > the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to > 2.4.20. You mean "data journaling" mode -- ext3 is always journ

ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On 21 Dec 02 19:15:50 GMT, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, 2.4.20 is not the kernel you want if you run ext3 filesystems. AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that the bug exists in

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 01:36:53PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Where did you see text regarding 2.4.20 problems with ext3? The box > has ext2 right now but I was going to convert some time after the > kernel upgrade. See Herbert Xu's reply to my earlier post; 2.4.20 only barfs if you a

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:40:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW, 2.4.20 is not the kernel you want if you run ext3 filesystems. > > OTOH, 2.4.19 seems to not want to provide DRM support for the Creator. > > 2.4.20 ext3 is OK as long as you don'

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, 2.4.20 is not the kernel you want if you run ext3 filesystems. > OTOH, 2.4.19 seems to not want to provide DRM support for the Creator. 2.4.20 ext3 is OK as long as you don't enable data=journal (the default is data=ordered). -- Debian GNU/Linu

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Nathan E Norman said: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 01:40:51AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: >> Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile >> under >> woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. >> >> Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I don't care. Right now it fails >> at th

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:02:33AM -0800, nate wrote: > I don't have personal experience with linux on sparc yet, Downloading > the woody ISOs for it now and plan to install it on my ultra 1 probably > tomorrow though. Don't waste time with the ISOs. Set up a RARP server and TFTP server on an exi

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 01:40:51AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under > woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. > > Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I don't care. Right now it fails > at the "make dep" stage using either me

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
nate said: > Gerald V. Livingston II said: >> Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile >> under >> woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. > > > I'm not sure how closely you track the kernel but I've read several > places that the "generic" kernel is rarely the choice for anyt

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Gerald V. Livingston II said: > Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under > woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. I'm not sure how closely you track the kernel but I've read several places that the "generic" kernel is rarely the choice for anything other then x86. the n

Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-20 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I don't care. Right now it fails at the "make dep" stage using either method. First it was some missing header files. Figured out where they were and got t

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2002-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:07:04PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've got an Athlon XP 2000 system running as my desktop machine. I've > also got a PIII 850 laptop and a p133 mail server. While recompiling the > kernel on the laptop isn't too time consuming it still takes almost > twice as long

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2002-10-15 Thread Jeff
Alex Malinovich, 2002-Oct-15 16:07 -0500: > I've got an Athlon XP 2000 system running as my desktop machine. I've > also got a PIII 850 laptop and a p133 mail server. While recompiling the > kernel on the laptop isn't too time consuming it still takes almost > twice as long as it does on my deskto

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2002-10-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 14:07, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've got an Athlon XP 2000 system running as my desktop machine. I've > also got a PIII 850 laptop and a p133 mail server. While recompiling the > kernel on the laptop isn't too time consuming it still takes almost > twice as long as it do

Compiling a kernel for another machine

2002-10-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've got an Athlon XP 2000 system running as my desktop machine. I've also got a PIII 850 laptop and a p133 mail server. While recompiling the kernel on the laptop isn't too time consuming it still takes almost twice as long as it does on my desktop. And don't even get me started about the p133...

Re: compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread guennelk
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:08:13PM +0300, Tuomo Karhu wrote: > Could you give me main commands and short help/explanation howto compile > debian kernel? I prefere to use make-kpkg the Debian-Kernel-Package-Manager. I think you have to install the kernel-package. It produces Kernel-.deb packages a

Re: compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread craigw
On Sat May 04, 2002 at 03:45:42PM -0400, Kapil Khosla wrote: > > If you want it really really short > apt-cache search kernel-image > > You will get a variety of hits > Choose 1 > > apt-get install kernel-image... > > You dont need anything else, It will modify lilo.conf, etc etc, and you j

Re: compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread Nick Guerrera
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 08:08, Tuomo Karhu wrote: > Could you give me main commands and short help/explanation howto compile > debian kernel? > > Thanks. > > Tuomo Karhu Check out chapter 9 of the Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.html Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread Kapil Khosla
If you want it really really short apt-cache search kernel-image You will get a variety of hits Choose 1 apt-get install kernel-image... You dont need anything else, It will modify lilo.conf, etc etc, and you just reboot :) If you wanna really compile a kernel, In debian you can use some

RE: compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread Jonas Björck
Use the guide on this site http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg.en/intro-kernel-pkg.html   Cheers.   Jonas   -Original Message- From: Tuomo Karhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 4 maj 2002 14:08 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: compiling a

compiling a kernel?

2002-05-04 Thread Tuomo Karhu
Could you give me main commands and short help/explanation howto compile debian kernel?   Thanks.   Tuomo Karhu

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Steinraht
I did it!!! As root I checked disk space, and did: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image (with an underscore). And it works, I get the image.deb and after dpkg -i it is installed. After rebooting it's a bit dissapointing that my new kernel will not work, but I'm going to start to find

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread John
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:30:33AM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image > This has never failed me: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ pgpjm8INeNUQs.pgp Descripti

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:30:49AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > - make-kpkg clean > > - make menuconfig > > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image > > It is called kernel_image, an underscore, not -. Yes but reading make-kpkg perl script, it seems to accept both as same target as undocume

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Hans Steinraht wrote on Sat Oct 06, 2001 um 12:30:33AM: > > -- Hehe, never put -- at the beginning, it is a sign for beginning a signature and some software cuts everything below. > - make-kpkg clean > - make menuconfig > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image It is called kern

compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I just started with Debian, installed the compact unstable version and came to the conclusion that I had to compile a new kernel to let Debian do the things I want. This is the firsttime I'm doing this, so I followed the steps described in the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, and in the README f

Re: Compiling a kernel on another processor

2001-09-16 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:52:20AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > This is at one of my clients place. He has got an athlon machine. Are there > any issues in compiling the kernel on a different machine with a different > processor ? Now I am thinking of compiling the kernel for this Celerone > machi

first shot at compiling a kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Keith & Cecile Schooley
I tried compiling a kernel (2.2.17) for the first time. It compiled, rebooted, and generally worked okay, but there were a few problems 1) I received a startup message indicating that I was using kerneld and almost certainly didn't want to. I don't know how I turned it on, so I don&

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-02-01 Thread A+B Frank
Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > has anyone an idea how to cross compile a kernel, so to compile a kernel > for a ppc on an i386? > > Just curius. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan Hi, you'll have to set up gcc as a cross compiler and look at the patches in the kernel sources for ppc. regards Albrecht

RE: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, has anyone an idea how to cross compile a kernel, so to compile a kernel for a ppc on an i386? Just curius. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 30-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing it menti

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-31 Thread Gary Jones
On 30 Jan 2001, "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have this worry about all those bits I marked as Modules, > > though. I guess I have to copy those too, hmm? From where > > to where? Is there anything else I should worry about? > > I think most people will suggest you use the "ma

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing > it mentioned somewhere). > > What I want to do is compile a kernel on my desktop > PC for my laptop. Just build it, copy the new kernel image > across the network, rejig the laptop's lilo, reboot it, and > Roberta's your crossdressing Aunt

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