Re: make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Key
Hi Here it fails again. this is version 12.033 instead of 12.032 I downloaded kernel--package-12.033.tar.gz invoke like this CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3 make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version dickhead1.0 kernel_image kernel_headers All done in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32. I am running kernel vmlin

make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Key
Hi I have using make-kpkg successfully on my amd64 dual core system until about a month ago. I did the following: installed debian testing amd64 apt-get install kernel-package make g++ gcc build-essentail libncurses5-dev linux-source-2.6.32 and any other files I needed to build a kernel I

Re: custom kernel boot problem: can't access tty

2007-12-16 Thread Robert Key
SOLUTION: to "can't access tty; job control turned off" Apologies for answering my own post, but this seems to be a problem many people have had. For some reason (there could be many) the boot kernel can't mount the root file system and hence cannot find all devices and tools to run the login.

custom kernel boot problem: can't access tty

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Key
Hi, I compiled a debian custom kernel 2.6.18 to boot a USB flash drive. The stock kernels work perfectly, but my custom kernel mounts the root fs and then gives the error message: /bin/sh Can't access tty; Job control stopped The booting process stops. The console , tty devices are all there,