Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686 vs. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686

2003-12-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sven Heinicke (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > $ apt-cache search kernel-image 2.4.18 686 > kernel-image-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp - Linux kernel > image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. >

kernel-image-2.4.18-686 vs. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686

2003-12-03 Thread Sven Heinicke
$ apt-cache search kernel-image 2.4.18 686 kernel-image-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Lyons wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 > Well, that was easy. Don't know what to say: I expect things to go > wrong. The only thing that usually "goes wrong" here is that the bootstrapping kernel has a lot of devic

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-03 Thread kenneth dombrowski
On 03-08-03 21:09 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am sca

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:09, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 [...] > If you use lilo, it will already have a section "LinuxOLD" > additionally to "Linux", so simply rerunning lilo after installing [...] Well, that was eas

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:40:08 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels > anyway, and new to apt

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels > anyway, and new to apt as wel

kernel-image-2.4.18-686

2003-08-03 Thread Richard Lyons
It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels anyway, and new to apt as well. I don't see in the apt HOWTO exactly how to "upgrade" a

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686.postinst problem

2003-07-25 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Well, a little over a year after I posted the question, I found the solution to my question. TeXlive contains a readlink program which was earlier in the path that /bin/readlink. That's it. I exited dselect, changed the path in the shell, and reran the installation. The same thing happened with

Re: using kernel-image-2.4.18-686, how to get rid of 5 seconds to enter shell at boot message?

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:12:40PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > I was also never able to figure out what you could do with it anyway. From what I understand, this allows you to move around in the initrd image, in other words, the initial root. You could probaby trojan some kerenl modules somehow

Re: using kernel-image-2.4.18-686, how to get rid of 5 seconds toenter shell at boot message?

2002-09-19 Thread Travis Crump
Walter Tautz wrote: > just curious since it allows anyone to get a root shell with getting prompted > for a root passwd. > If someone is watching the bootup then couldn't they just as easily boot from a floppy or CD or hold down alt+shift during boot and type ' init=/bin/sh'? Though I guess

using kernel-image-2.4.18-686, how to get rid of 5 seconds to enter shell at boot message?

2002-09-19 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious since it allows anyone to get a root shell with getting prompted for a root passwd. Also if one hits enter and then exit it fails to mount the root fs, VFS error occurs. NOTE this does not happen if the kernel is allowed to boot normally. walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-25 Thread Ken Causey
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:58, Petro wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:50:29AM -0500, Ken Causey wrote: > > > On 05/24 05:07 Ken Causey wrote: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 > > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs o

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-24 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:47:52AM -0500, Ken Causey wrote: > > Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but > > that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be > > executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think). > > > > It all looks normal until the end, w

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-24 Thread Ken Causey
> On 05/24 05:07 Ken Causey wrote: > > ... > > VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > > > > I have a single SCSI drive (2 partitions, first is swap, second is > root) > > connected via a

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-24 Thread Ken Causey
> Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but > that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be > executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think). > > It all looks normal until the end, when the kernel can't mount> > the root partition. You say you have a

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-24 Thread Ken Causey
>From /boot/config-2.4.18-686-smp CONFIG_SCSI=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m Should provide what's necessary for Adaptec 29160 no? Ken On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:16, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Read the /boot/config-kernel-image-xxx file and see what scsi

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-24 Thread Ken Causey
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:45, Robert Webb wrote: > I am new to Linux but doesn't your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp file > need to be -rwxr-xr-x > > This is the way mine is > My first inclination was to say "No." My second inclination was to give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion but

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-23 Thread Oki DZ
On 05/24 05:07 Ken Causey wrote: ... VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 I have a single SCSI drive (2 partitions, first is swap, second is root) connected via an Adaptec 29160. I didn't see

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-23 Thread Brenda J. Butler
: > I am new to Linux but doesn't your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp file > need to be -rwxr-xr-x > > This is the way mine is > > Ken Causey wrote: > > >I'm running into trouble trying to boot using > >kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-23 Thread Robert Webb
I am new to Linux but doesn't your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp file need to be -rwxr-xr-x This is the way mine is Ken Causey wrote: I'm running into trouble trying to boot using kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing, Linux version 2.4.18-686-smp ([EMAIL

Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-23 Thread Ken Causey
I'm running into trouble trying to boot using kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing, Linux version 2.4.18-686-smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sun 2BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package && initrd

2002-03-17 Thread Simon Hepburn
Davi Leal wrote: > My original installation, which I have upgraded, is from a woody CD-ROM > with 2.2.20 kernel. I am running now a 2.4.18 kernel compiled from source > (make xconfig dep bzImage modules modules_install + lilo). Note that I do > not use-compile initrd ramdisk support on it. Why my

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package && initrd

2002-03-17 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 10:03, Davi Leal wrote: > Installing the kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package I get: > > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.18-686) > This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use > initrd. > As a

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package && initrd

2002-03-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:03:51PM +0100, Davi Leal wrote: > Installing the kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package I get: > My original installation, which I have upgraded, is from a woody CD-ROM with > 2.2.20 kernel. I am running now a 2.4.18 kernel compiled from source (make > xconfig

kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package && initrd

2002-03-17 Thread Davi Leal
Installing the kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package I get: You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.18-686) This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use initrd. As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img