Re: Kernel compilation problem

2018-08-02 Thread Taren
I did finally get the 4.17.11 kernel to compile so that my large drives are visible now, but I had to use a 'shotgun' approach in including as many SCSI/SATA/etc variables as possible. I do intend on comparing the non-functioning config for 4.17.11 against both the functioning config, as

Re: Kernel compilation problem

2018-08-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 23:37:33 (-0600), Taren wrote: > I'm running Stretch, with kernel 4.9.0.7, and am trying to compile a > new kernel (preferably 4.17.11) into which I can boot. > The kernel builds successfully, but whenever I try booting into the > new kernel, I end up in emergency mode, with

Re: Kernel compilation problem

2018-08-02 Thread Taren
Correction: The kernel version I'm using (which sees my 2.7T drives) is 4.9.0-7-amd, not 4.9.0.7. I can provide the .config file for 4.17.11, if needed. On 08/01/2018 11:37 PM, Taren wrote: I'm running Stretch, with kernel 4.9.0.7, and am trying to compile a new kernel (preferably 4.17.11)

Kernel compilation problem

2018-08-01 Thread Taren
I'm running Stretch, with kernel 4.9.0.7, and am trying to compile a new kernel (preferably 4.17.11) into which I can boot. The kernel builds successfully, but whenever I try booting into the new kernel, I end up in emergency mode, with the error Unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-.device has

understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
actually i never compile or patch any kernel before for some reasons and learning i am installing kernel 3.16 stable with patch. now the question is when i visit kernel.org website i see 3.16 kernel and patch and inc.patch. i can understand what is patch it could be a fix to some bugs but what is

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/10/2014 10:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: actually i never compile or patch any kernel before for some reasons and learning i am installing kernel 3.16 stable with patch. now the question is when i visit kernel.org website i see 3.16 kernel and patch and inc.patch. i can understand what

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for your guidence, can you please share that i do not see kernel architecture on the website. does that kernel file contain both x86 and amd64? On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:51 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 23/10/2014 10:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 23/10/14 at 03:37pm, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for your guidence, can you please share that i do not see kernel architecture on the website. does that kernel file contain both x86 and amd64? ...of course it does. But, do you know what are you doing? -- « Nunc est bibendum,

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Actually the problem is i am trying to install KVM guest windows 7 64 bit. during the installation everything went well. but when guest start for the first time my KVM guest shows booting from harddirve... and struck. my /var/log/libvirt/qemu/(myguestfile) show this KVM: entry

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread idiotei...@gmail.com
On 23/10/2014 14:22, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Actually the problem is i am trying to install KVM guest windows 7 64 bit. during the installation everything went well. but when guest start for the first time my KVM guest shows booting from harddirve... and struck. my

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Devrin Talen
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com writes: So my KVM host is not a production server so i thought it is a best time to play with the kernal patching because i am working on linux for years but never perform such task i always rely on default/stable debian repository but this is a first

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Dervin, for the encouragement and it is really nice to know that there is a community exist for newbies as well.i will definitly start working on your given information it is very helpful. just sharing to all after lots of efforts and updates nothing has achieved so far. started a new

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:20:36 -0400 (EDT), Muhammad Yousuf wrote: actually i never compile or patch any kernel before for some reasons and learning i am installing kernel 3.16 stable with patch. now the question is when i visit kernel.org website i see 3.16 kernel and patch and inc.patch.

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Chris Bannister
Please don't top post on this mailing list. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:22:30PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Actually the problem is i am trying to install KVM guest windows 7 64 bit. during the installation everything went well. but when guest start for the first time my KVM guest shows

RE: kernel compilation (was ... Re: Building computer)

2013-09-29 Thread Beco
computer, I've asked: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 23:57 -0300, Beco wrote: How long a considered fast kernel compilation would last? I'd like to have a clue. And in what kind of computer (processor / RAM / anything else relevant)? And I got some good answers that is better to join this thread

kernel compilation (was ... Re: Building computer)

2013-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:57:43PM -0300, Beco wrote: On 26 September 2013 22:22, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: (I've compiled a kernel on a netbook; you'd better have a few hours to spare...) Questions for people who compile kernel and their machines: You are better off

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-28 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:41:10 - Cam Hutchison c...@xdna.net wrote: David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: (My goal was to produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not share that goal.) I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Cam Hutchison: (My goal was to produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not share that goal.) I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since building an initrd is useful for only two reasons I can think of: I regularly built custom kernels for a

Re: (Results) Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:22:33 +, Camaleón wrote: Okay, let's get the numbers. I followed Sven and Stephen's advice so I: - Used make localmodconfig to generate the .config file - Appended CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 to

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
a kernel and this is my 4 kernel compilation in one month... but now I'm making these tests just for fun because all these compilations were aimed to debug the staging wifi drivers but the latest kernel (3.1-rc7, which I tried yesterday) neither worked. One of the biggest problems I see people

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: I will continue to use and recommend kernel-package. But I'm not going to argue with those who wish to use make deb-pkg. It's all a question of habit. If I need to have a package, I use make-dpkg on Debian distribs and

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
been added to the wifi driver has been detected and I was given a workaround but I still need to be able to test another things and that involves adding debug trace for the stating drivers, which involves a kernel compilation. Do an lspci and write down all the hardware you have

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Cam Hutchison c...@xdna.net wrote: David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: (My goal was to produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not share that goal.) I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since building

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Stephen Powell [110924 14:13 -0400]: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: What do you mean by kernel-package? Debian's vanilla kernel? kernel-package is the name of a Debian package, as in aptitude install kernel-package Isn't [1] the proper way to build

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 6:55 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:15:51 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: 5 hours? Did you say 5 hours? I have a 10 year old dual Mendocino 550 machine with only 384MB of PC100 that takes about 30 minutes to compile my custom kernels using make -j2. I'd

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2011 2:42 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Stephen Powell [110924 14:13 -0400]: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: What do you mean by kernel-package? Debian's vanilla kernel? kernel-package is the name of a Debian package, as in aptitude install

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:56:35 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) although getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN on an atom's probably 1; but you never know... You can also pass

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
get the packages that I ask for. And since your goal is to reduce kernel compilation time, I would think that you would not want extra packages produced that you don't need. That takes additional time. I also found very easy to compile a new kernel from whatever source by using the mentioned

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:42:24 -0400 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Isn't [1] the proper way to build Debian kernels? [1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html That depends on your definition of proper. The kernel handbook, not surprisingly, is maintained by the

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, I already have a set of tools installed (along with fakeroot, that kernel-package) because I'm following Debian Installation Guide instructions: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch08s06.html There's also

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:53:59 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel unless you do. Hum... you mean the one for EDID? I've compiled

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:30:36 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:53:59 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:25:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, I already have a set of tools installed (along with fakeroot, that kernel-package) because I'm following Debian Installation Guide instructions:

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:15:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/24/2011 9:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so wasting the less time in the process would be great

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Brian
On Sun 25 Sep 2011 at 08:21:17 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [Snipped: Some advantages of using kernel-package] But, to each his own. Whatever floats your boat, man. Indeed, but the deck is stacked against kernel-package when it is associated with 'deprecated' in the minds of users. It may not

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 10:30:30 AM Subject: Re: Reducing kernel compilation time I'd guess you're including the kitchen sink. Don't build the hundreds of driver modules your machines won't ever use. That is the key to reducing build time

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2011 9:30 AM, Camaleón wrote: Fair enough, but I wonder what to include in the recipe. If I put too much salt or leave the oven for many hours at the maximun temperature I'll get a pastiche nobody will be able to eat... Have you used make-menuconfig? Simply go through all the

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2011 10:16 AM, David Witbrodt wrote: If that option had existed when I was learning about this, it would have saved me many, many hours! But then you wouldn't have learned as much. Easier is not always better, even though it often seems so. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:16:53 -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 10:30:30 AM Subject: Re: Reducing kernel compilation time I'd guess you're including the kitchen sink. Don't build the hundreds of driver modules your machines

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
. And be patient with yourself. Nearly everyone who embarks on the roll your own journey trips a few times along the way, and has a steep learning curve in the beginning. Over the years, I've never had the need to compile a kernel and this is my 4 kernel compilation in one month... but now I'm making

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 11:27:13 AM Subject: Re: Reducing kernel compilation time If that option had existed when I was learning about this, it would have saved me many, many hours! But then you wouldn't have learned as much

(Results) Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:22:33 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) Any trick? Yes, I got many useful tricks, a big thanks to all. Okay, let's get the numbers. I followed Sven and Stephen's advice so I: - Used make localmodconfig to generate the .config file - Appended CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 to

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
a kernel and this is my 4 kernel compilation in one month... but now I'm making these tests just for fun because all these compilations were aimed to debug the staging wifi drivers but the latest kernel (3.1-rc7, which I tried yesterday) neither worked. One of the biggest problems I see people having

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:27:09 -0400 (EDT), Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Indeed, but the deck is stacked against kernel-package when it is associated with 'deprecated' in the minds of users. It may not suit the Kernel Team for their use but I've happily and successfully compiled kernels

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Cam Hutchison
David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: (My goal was to produce a kernel that boots without an initrd; most people will not share that goal.) I would have thought that most people would share that goal, since building an initrd is useful for only two reasons I can think of: 1) You are

Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a netbook governed by Intel's Atom N455 with 2 GiB of RAM and I

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
I would build only the relevant kernel *module*, I want to play with (or imported from linux-next): http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage HTH On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had to compile the latest upstream kernel

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
time in the process would be great :-) Any trick? I would build only the relevant kernel *module*, I want to play with (or imported from linux-next): http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage I'll give it a whirl, but reducing kernel compilation time is still something

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote: I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a netbook governed by

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote: (...) I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so wasting the less time in the process would be

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:01:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: (...) I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so wasting the less time in the

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-24 18:04 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Plug in any hardware that you intend to use with your netbook and then run make localmodconfig. This works from Linux 2.6.32 onwards¹. I'll test that, it sounds very good :-) (I guess that

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours.

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
package. With kernel-package, I only get the packages that I ask for. And since your goal is to reduce kernel compilation time, I would think that you would not want extra packages produced that you don't need. That takes additional time. If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:56:35 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) although getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN on an atom's probably 1; but you never know... You can also pass INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 to make-kpkg so that the make modules_install step strips out

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 20:20 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 I didn't read the thread, just one mail. For my 2.1 GHz dual-core Athlon CONCURRENCY_LEVEL does minimal reduce compiling time. I suspect that consequently reducing unneeded stuff would be

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 9:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a netbook governed by Intel's

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 22:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 20:20 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 I didn't read the thread, just one mail. For my 2.1 GHz dual-core Athlon CONCURRENCY_LEVEL does minimal reduce compiling time.

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 11:01 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Intel's Atom N455 I'm not familiar with the capabilities of your hardware, but if you have multiple CPUs (cores) The Atom 455 is a single core 64/32 bit CPU with HyperThreading,

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:15:51 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: 5 hours? Did you say 5 hours? I have a 10 year old dual Mendocino 550 machine with only 384MB of PC100 that takes about 30 minutes to compile my custom kernels using make -j2. I'd guess you're including the kitchen sink.

Question about kernel compilation

2007-10-15 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Hi... I am testing self made kernels on my desktop, using the debian way found in http://www.howtoforge.com... My question is about the name given to the deb package generated... How can I change the string -10.00.Custom_i386 in the package name? I am running debian testing/lenny. Thanks a

Re: Question about kernel compilation

2007-10-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Miguel, if you are using make-kpkg , you may try the option `--revision' hth, Jerome Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Hi... I am testing self made kernels on my desktop, using the debian way found in http://www.howtoforge.com... My question is about the name given to the deb package

Re: Question about kernel compilation

2007-10-15 Thread mpiazza
Hi, You can use the option --revision in make-kpkg (make-kpkg --initrd --revision 1.0 kernel_image) or you can change the default in file /etc/kernel-pkg.conf to 1.0 so everytime you give make-kpkg the revision is always want you want. Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: automatique des headers du kernel / compilation driver rt2500

2007-08-03 Thread Sylvain Sauvage
Monsieur Bidon, mercredi 1 août 2007, 11:36:24 CEST Salut tout le monde, ’lut, J'adore trop la distrib Debian pour son système de paquet. Et j'essaye d'optimiser pour que les mise à jours se résume à un comb o apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade. Mon soucis, vient du driver de ma

automatique des headers du kernel / compilation driver rt2500

2007-08-01 Thread Monsieur Bidon
Salut tout le monde, J'adore trop la distrib Debian pour son système de paquet. Et j'essaye d'optimiser pour que les mise à jours se résume à un comb o apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade. Mon soucis, vient du driver de ma carte wifi elle est basé sur le chip rt2500, cette carte est très bien

kernel compilation

2006-06-13 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, I was always downloading from www.kernel.org, using always the same .config file, and everything was fine. Up to the point I found out that the newer kernels which were supposed to have new options (CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) are not having them. I tried to compile the configure the kernel

Kernel Compilation

2006-02-05 Thread Roman Kouzmenko
Hello, After being stuck for 3 days trying to recompile my kernel, I'm seeking help. Guess the answer should be quite simple. I've managed after some work to install debian on my new Dell machine (ICH7 controller + SATA): I debootstrapped the system from Knoppix and then installed the

Re: Kernel Compilation

2006-02-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hello Roman, Just been through the exercise of building my first Debian kernel myself. If you have never built a Debian kernel before, the 'Debian way' of doing it seems quite different to that on most other Linux's. The method I used to reproduce my stock stable kernel-source-2.6.8 after a new

Re: Kernel Compilation

2006-02-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Roman Kouzmenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've managed after some work to install debian on my new Dell machine (ICH7 controller + SATA): I debootstrapped the system from Knoppix and then installed the latest kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp from the backports with initramfs-tools. I need to

Kernel compilation

2006-01-27 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all For some reason I seem to be getting the following message when type make menuconfig scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declaration of 'current_menu' follows non-static declaration scripts/kconfig/lkc.h:63: error: previous declaration of 'current_menu' was here make[1]: ***

Re: Kernel compilation

2006-01-27 Thread Andi Drebes
Hi! For some reason I seem to be getting the following message when type make menuconfig scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declaration of 'current_menu' follows non-static declaration scripts/kconfig/lkc.h:63: error: previous declaration of 'current_menu' was here make[1]: ***

Re: Kernel compilation

2006-01-27 Thread Brent Clark
Andi Drebes wrote: Hi! For some reason I seem to be getting the following message when type make menuconfig scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declaration of 'current_menu' follows non-static declaration scripts/kconfig/lkc.h:63: error: previous declaration of 'current_menu' was here

Re: Kernel compilation

2006-01-27 Thread Andi Drebes
Hi Brent! Thanks for replying, no its from the debian repositry. ok. But which version did you obtain? ukgate:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -l | grep -i gcc ii gcc 4.0.2-2The GNU C compiler ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-22 The GNU C

Re: Kernel compilation

2006-01-27 Thread AbhiSawa
.1.0 kernel_image for more details google with debian kernel compilation Regards, Abhisawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-19 Thread Raffaele D'Elia
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Doofus told: tar -xjf kernel-version.tar.bz cd linux-version make-kpkg debian dch -i Type your changes to the changelog like: New vanilla upstream cp /boot/config-whatever .config make menuconfig to custom your kernel

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Raffaele D'Elia told: Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Doofus told: tar -xjf kernel-version.tar.bz cd linux-version make-kpkg debian dch -i Type your changes to the changelog like: New vanilla

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-19 Thread Raffaele D'Elia
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Raffaele D'Elia told: Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Doofus told: tar -xjf kernel-version.tar.bz cd linux-version make-kpkg debian dch -i Type your changes to the changelog

a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread Doofus
The debian reference manual says there are two ways, the debian standard method: http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-debian and the classic method: http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-classic where the first uses a

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Doofus told: [...] Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg kernel_image (which I like)? The way I do it: As root: $EDITOR

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Doofus wrote: Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg kernel_image (which I like)? I do not have an answer to your question. But may I ask why you are trying to compile 1) latest

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread John Hasler
Doofus writes: Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg kernel_image (which I like)? No. Kernel-package works fine with kernel.org kernels. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread Colin
Doofus wrote: Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg kernel_image (which I like)? Combine the methods? That's how the maintainers make the deb packages more or less. -- To

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Monday 18 July 2005 07:43 pm, Doofus wrote: The debian reference manual says there are two ways, the debian standard method: http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-d ebian and the classic method:

NVidia drivers kernel compilation: version magic?

2005-06-02 Thread Tom
Hey ho, From my very first steps with Debian, I was taught to compile kernel sources myself, rather than the proverbial Debian way, so that's what I've been doing ever since. After compilation, an sh ./NVIDIA_binary_driver_package.run has never failed on me, until recently. For some reason,

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-24 Thread Alberto Bert
On May 23, 2005 at 10:03:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default config file. Is there any indication whatsoever that the default configuration file is appropriate

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: Hello Alberto, I run 2.6.11-ck8 and 2.6.11.2 with no issues. Both compiled with make-kpkg. Could it be a wrong .config file ? Regards, Ionut Is this the vanilla kernel source or the Debian kernel-source package? Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-24 Thread Alberto Bert
On May 24, 2005 at 09:02:59AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 May 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: Hello Alberto, I run 2.6.11-ck8 and 2.6.11.2 with no issues. Both compiled with make-kpkg. Could it be a wrong .config file ? Regards, Ionut Is this the vanilla kernel

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-24 Thread Ionut Georgescu
I usually run vanilla sources. For the 2.6.11.-ck8 I wanted to give the much praised -ck patch a try, but for now I haven't seen any difference yet :-) Ionut On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:02:59AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 May 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: Hello Alberto, I run

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-24 Thread Alberto Bert
Got it! I update the system and it upgraded initrd-tools, plus I updated the kernel-2.6.11 also. Then I copyed the new default config from /boot and I'm now running it. So, I suppose initrd-tools was buggy... thanks anyway, bye Alberto On May 24, 2005 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote:

kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi, I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default config file. I doesn't boot giving endless loop with and error apparently related to proc and init. I cannot be more precise cause I don't know where to find back what it was on the console... Is that a known problem

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Alberto Bert
Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running sid Alberto On May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi, I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default config file. I doesn't boot giving endless loop with and error apparently related to proc and init. I

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hello Alberto, I run 2.6.11-ck8 and 2.6.11.2 with no issues. Both compiled with make-kpkg. Could it be a wrong .config file ? Regards, Ionut On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:00PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running sid Alberto On May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default config file. Is there any indication whatsoever that the default configuration file is appropriate for your hardware? If you don't know what you're doing,

Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
Hello, while trying to compile a module (shfs) for my kernel (compiled from source, version 2.6.5) I got a segmentation fault error. I deleted my kernel-source folder, while keeping a copy of my configuration, and tried to recompile it. I got the same error again, here it is :

Re: Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
Yes I have, with the latest provided by debian : 2.6.9 The problem seems to be unrelated to the version of the kernel because even module compilation fails, as I stated before. Thanks for helping Hi Have you tried to compile another 2.6.x kernel with your 2.6.5/.config ? Moreover you will have

Re: Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
I do have all the necessary packages. The thing is that I configured my kernel a couple of months ago (when 2.6.5 was the latest stable kernel version). It worked fine. Yesterday I found shfs module, and while trying to compile it I got this error message. It isn't a normal compilation error,

Re: Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
I removed some of my gcc's, keeping the gcc-x.x-base files though, they seemed necessary. I tried again, same error. The funny thing, even 'make clean' fails : ... /bin/sh: line 1: 15413 Segmentation fault gcc -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs

Re: Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
And it seems all my gcc-3.x packages don't work... gcc-2.95 is fine, but too old... _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Kernel compilation error

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
I've managed to reinstall gcc-3.3 (with aptitude), after having cleared my apt cache (apt-get clean) so as to be sure that a correct version would be downloaded... Same problem, segmentation fault when I do 'gcc -v' _ Express

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