Greetings, * Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Sep-16 19:17 AKDT]: > Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to provide full details because, as I > outlined above, I cannot even get a system working well enough to log in > and review dmesg.
Does it get far enough to log messages to /var/log/kern.log? Boot back into a working 2.4 kernel and see what shows up there. > For the record: > Hardware is: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ on MSI K7T-266Pro motherboard, 512 MB > Mushkin PC2100 DRAM. > 1 WD 80 GB HD, IDE, as hda > 1 Pioneer 106S DVD reader as hdc > 1 HP CDRW as hdd (ide-scsi under 2.4.x) FYI, unless something has changed recently, ide-scsi is not working with 2.6. I don't use any SCSI stuff, or SCSI emulation and everything works fine. You need a new cdrecord, and pass dev=/dev/hdd to make it work. > With my own complied 2.6.0-test2, I am finally able to boot, but kdm > cannot start. At the login prompt, I cannot log in as the keyboard does > not work. I will review the .config and maybe I made the keyboard a > module and it is not getting loaded. To start, you might try building everything into the kernel. Why make things complicated with modules if you're already building a custom kernel for your hardware. If you really do want modules, make sure you have a recent 'module-init-tools' Debian package. Modules are different in 2.6. > Oh yes, I am running sarge. gcc version is 3.3.1 20030626 Debian > prerelease. I haven't really been able to figure out what the "approved" version of gcc for kernel compiles is, but according to the documentation that comes with the source, you should be using gcc-2.95. I've got a 2.6.0-test3 built with this, and also a 2.6.0-test5 with 3.2. But you might not want to use 3.3 because it's more experimental. I'm not sure how you're supposed to change the version, but what I do is edit the top level Makefile and replace the 'gcc' lines with 'gcc-2.95' (it's in two places but I can't remember exactly what they're called). Also, you may get user-level kernel panics from some sort of Athlon prefetch problem. The kernel developers are currently discussing how best to resolve this issue, but if you run into this (the kernel boots and runs, but you get kernel panics that don't hang the system later when running other programs) let me know and I can send you the simple patch Andrew Morton sent me to turn it off. Hope that helps. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
