Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:43:01PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:26:04AM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Also, note that 2.6 kernels won't work in Woody unless you have > > backports of module-init-tools (and probably a couple of other stuff). > > ... modutils, if you want t

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-23 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:26:04AM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Also, note that 2.6 kernels won't work in Woody unless you have > backports of module-init-tools (and probably a couple of other stuff). ... modutils, if you want to keep the ability to boot earlier kernels. module-init-tools conf

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-23 Thread Kai Schindelka
Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: cd /usr/src/linux/ make menuconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision --append_to_version - \ kernel-image cd .. It is IMHO better to add option '--config menu' to second make-kpkg command and do not use `make menuconfig` (it will prevent some warnings when changing or

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Deboo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 Did you compile in the correct filesystem? (ie ext3, ext2). When you are using initrd, did you compile in support for initrd *and* ram? I generally avoid initrd if

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
V Ne, 22. 02. 2004 v 00:04, Kai Schindelka píše: > cd /usr/src/linux/ > make menuconfig > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --revision --append_to_version - \ > kernel-image > cd .. It is IMHO better to add option '--config menu' to second make-kpkg command and do not use `make menuconfig` (it will pre

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Kai Schindelka
Deboo wrote: Looks like the HA driver module the boot drive is attached to is missing in initrd. A misconfigured LILO may also be the cause. HA driver module? What's that? I'm sorry: Host Adapter. I am no native speaker. And I use grub, not lilo. Ok, that leaves that out. > Anyway, is it good to

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Kai Schindelka
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Also have a look at this excellent step-by-step HOWTO: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Excellent, indeed. Thanks for the link! -- Bye, Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Jérémie Knuesel
>First of all I'm right now stuck with apt-get not ready to install >anything as per another post from me. > >This is what I get: > > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Jérémie Knuesel wrote: > Try using kernel-package: I've compiled a lot of kernels without problem > with it, just following the instructions on this page: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > Also, if you want to install a 2.6 kernel, make sure you h

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Kai Schindelka wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 > > Looks like the HA driver module the boot drive is attached to is missing > in initrd. A misconfigured LILO may also be the cause. HA driver m

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Jérémie Knuesel
Try using kernel-package: I've compiled a lot of kernels without problem with it, just following the instructions on this page: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Also, if you want to install a 2.6 kernel, make sure you have installed the module-init-tools package. Another

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Kai Schindelka wrote: > > Have a look at the packages build-essential and kernel-package. > > The following works for me on a Debian stable: > > > > cd /usr/src/linux/ > > make menuconfig > > make-kpkg clean > > make-kpkg --revision --append_to_versio

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kai Schindelka wrote: Deboo wrote: I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too). Have a look at the packages build-essential a

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Kai Schindelka
Deboo wrote: I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too). Past few days I have been sitting just compiling and re-compiling var

Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too). Past few days I have been sitting just compiling and re-compiling various kernels