Re: Kernel 2.5 boot failure [SOLVED]

2003-04-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
She boots! Thanks to Bart Trojanowski for much help. I'm posting this to the list in case someone else runs into the same problem trying to build kernel 2.5 on Debian unstable. The symptom was an apparently frozen screen after the message 'Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.' First,

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:40:28AM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:37:06PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > When booting, grub seems to find it, uncompress it, then it says 'OK, > > booting the kernel' and nothing more. It just hangs. I don't see the > > line announc

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:45:42PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030427 16:59]: > > I've configured and built the kernel, using gcc-2.95, make bzImage and > > modules, installed modules under /lib/modules/2.5.68. Everything goes > > fine except for a bu

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030427 16:59]: > I've configured and built the kernel, using gcc-2.95, make bzImage and > modules, installed modules under /lib/modules/2.5.68. Everything goes > fine except for a bunch of depmod errors during the 'make > modules_install' which I'm guessi

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:37:06PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > When booting, grub seems to find it, uncompress it, then it says 'OK, > booting the kernel' and nothing more. It just hangs. I don't see the > line announcing the kernel version or compiler etc. CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y Milan

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Chris Cheney
Turn on virtual terminal support... Chris

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 21:37:06 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > I've configured and built the kernel, using gcc-2.95, I've not followed 2.5 development, but I'd suspect the recommended compiler for building it ought to be gcc 3.2 or 3.3 rather than 2.95 by now - check the documentation carefull