On Friday 11 July 2003 04:11, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:19:36AM +1200, cr wrote:
> > It looks as if the kernels on the Woody CD-ROMS aren't actually in the
> > form of packages, since 'apt-cache search vanilla' (or compact, or
> > idepci) brings up lists of other programs but nothing kernel-like.
> > apt-cache search vmlinuz does nothing, nor apt-cache search
> > linux.bin.
>
> Try apt-cache search kernel-image
>
> Most of the kernel-image packages are on CD 5 IIRC, so you need the
> full set of CDs - I think if you've only got the first CD all you've
> got is a source package and enough tools to build it.
The first CD actually gives a choice when starting the install, of idepci,
compact, vanilla or bf24, IIRC. But they don't seem to be in deb package
form.
> > I just found the 2.2.20 kernel package at www.debian.org and downloaded
> > it (36 minutes on a 28k modem) and installed it with Kpackage (I'm
> > lazy!), and it seems to be working. Aside from briefly breaking GRUB
> > and having to fix it yet again because I got the /boot directories mixed
> > up :)
> >
> > Further investigations will have to wait till later - after midnight now
> > and I do have a day job <grin>
>
> Do you mean CD burning is working, or just that nothing has stopped
> working?
Just, nothing's stopped working. :)
I'll investigate getting X-cd-roast (and cdrecord) working now. ('Now'
being a couple of days later...)
Well now, lsmod, modprobe and insmod tell me that ide-scsi and sg are
present, but sr_mod isn't:
lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 14928 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 7060 0
autofs 9160 2 (autoclean)
lockd 42420 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sunrpc 57816 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
nls_cp437 3896 2 (autoclean)
af_packet 6152 0 (unused)
unix 11352 99 (autoclean)
# insmod sr_mod
insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found
And it isn't in any subdirectory of /lib/modules/2.2.20 either
cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
I've got /dev/cdrom symlinked to scd0
alti:/dev# ls -l cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 11 00:13 cdrom -> scd0
My /etc/fstab says
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
And my Grub /boot/grub/menu.lst file says
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.2.20
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/hda5 hdb=ide-scsi ro
savedefault
I can still mount the cd-rom as a IDE device:
alti:/# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
but NOT as a SCSI one:
alti:/# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
I suppose this means I need sr_mod? I'm a little surprised the 'vanilla'
kernel doesn't have it already, since it has sg and ide-scsi. But I can't
find sr_mod anywhere.
Searching www.debian.org for sr_mod lists it in kernels 2.4.16 and
2.4.18 (but no 2.2.nn kernels). (I assume this means the 2.2.20 kernel (as
shipped with Woody) definitely doesn't include sr_mod?)
I assume I *could* download and install a 2.4.16 or 2.4.18 kernel, but would
this cause conflicts with all the stuff I already have installed? I'd
rather just download the sr_mod module from somewhere (if I could find it!)
and install it with insmod than download a 8MB kernel image file.....
Sorry for these elementary questions, but I've never messed around with
kernels before.
cr
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