Re: Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-13 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> But i still got the error about can finding vg_maingroup which i |> believe is my main filesystem. I strongly suspect that you are trying to boot a kernel which does not include LVM support. (Partly because I had very similar problems in upgrading to 2.6.29 from 2.6.22 and this was the reaso

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-05 Thread Joey L
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > > not do anything too crazy ! > > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > > volum

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > not do anything too crazy ! > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > volumes are software raid5 The Raid5 has LVM filesystems. > > here is fdisk -l : > > thor:/home/mjh# fd

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:29:05PM -0400, Joey L wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, thveil...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > thveillon.debian wrote : > > > [snip] > > > > Sorry, please ignore my advice to load dm-mod in the initrd, reading the > > whole thread I saw you are running on software

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, thveil...@gmail.com wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote : > > > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveil...@gmail.com
thveillon.debian wrote : > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-mod to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules like you did for md-mod and rai

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the points..but need more help !! please > > I did as you said - > 1. echo -e "raid1\nmd_mod\nraid456" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > 2. update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.29 > > and i saw that the modules all loaded successfully. > But i still got the error that i

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the reply - > > Do you think that is the issue ??? > > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > > I have the rest of my drives on software

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > Tom - thanks for the reply - > Do you think that is the issue ??? > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > I have the rest of my drives on software raid5 and i have created lvm > volume groups and put my / filesystem allong with everything else on th

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joey L wrote: > > >> > >> fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 >> kernel-image kernel-headers >> >> >> Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your >> builds. >> >> You are booting from a lvm it seems, may

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > > > > fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 > kernel-image kernel-headers > > > Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your > builds. > > You are booting from a lvm it seems, maybe with root on lvm. Do you have > a separate /boot ? A

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L a écrit : > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > > > > > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it g

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it gave an error - something that rfakeroot is

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:15:02AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > True, that will not necessitate a recompile. But, the next time you > build your kernel, just use > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > Also, to easily make an initramfs, I use update-

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to > build > > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > > drives and read the fi

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > >Thanks for gettin

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Joey L
> > > > > > make-kpkg clean > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > > Than

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Joey L wrote: > I am running debian etch with - Linux thor 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 25 > 21:08:54 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux ; I am running this with Raid 5 and LVM. > > I would like to update to 2.6.29 ; I found this article but i am little > stuck, can you help

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:51:08PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:51:25PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >>Bill Marcum wrote: > >>>On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: > I installed Sarge on my machine a while back,

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:51:25PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Bill Marcum wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware specs and wha

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:51:25PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Bill Marcum wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: > > > > > >>I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely > >>familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genker

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Eriberto
On Sarge: # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 kamaraju kusumanchi escreveu: The OP is using sarge. AFAIK, Sarge does not have linux-image-2.6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Bill Marcum wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: > I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely > familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to > build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead of > 2.6. How can

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Peter J Ross
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: 1) What is genkernel? It's a Gentoo script for automated kernel generation from source during the original Gentoo installation. It's distantly comparable to the scripts in kernel-package, but doesn't require a manual "make oldconfig" to produce the same effect.

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread Ian
OK, thank you kaja. Sorry about replying directly, gmail doesn't really like the debian mailing list.-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ian wrote: Would that image be the same as if I built the kernel with genkernel? Keep replies on the list. For instructions on posting to debian-user please see http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html 1) What is genkernel? 2) Why do you want to compile the kernel? 3) If you

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. How can I upgrade my kernel with out reinstalling or c

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2003-07-02 Thread Debian User
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >>># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc > [...] >> ls /boot (see if that new kernel is in there) >> ls /lib/modules (see if it gave you any modules to go with it) > > No no.. This is not intel. It's a Mac

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2003-07-02 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >>># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc > [...] >> ls /boot (see if that new kernel is in there) >> ls /lib/modules (see if it gave you any modules to go with it) > > No no.. This is not intel. It's a Macintosh. >

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2003-07-01 Thread Kristian Peters
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc [...] > ls /boot (see if that new kernel is in there) > ls /lib/modules (see if it gave you any modules to go with it) No no.. This is not intel. It's a Macintosh. In order to install a new kernel it is the b

Re: Upgrading the kernel package from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 on Woody

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:48:30AM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:25:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Earlier, I had problems installing Debian on my system because of the > > > Realtek 8139 ethernet device on my desktop's motherboard. I got round > > > that

Re: Upgrading the kernel package from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 on Woody

2003-02-03 Thread Matt Price
I donm't think the necessary packages are on the cds and such (though I haven't checked). But I don't see why you don't just build up a tiny base system with the floppy-based kernel, get apt and your network working, and then compile a kernel "the debian way" as was suggested earlier. I think tha

Re: Upgrading the kernel package from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 on Woody

2003-02-03 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:25:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Earlier, I had problems installing Debian on my system because of the > > Realtek 8139 ethernet device on my desktop's motherboard. I got round > > that problem by building my own boot floppy with a newer kernel on > > it. > >

Re: Upgrading the kernel package from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 on Woody

2003-02-03 Thread grey
> Earlier, I had problems installing Debian on my system because of the > Realtek 8139 ethernet device on my desktop's motherboard. I got round > that problem by building my own boot floppy with a newer kernel on > it. Why not just get the sources and use kernel-package to make your own custom

Re: Upgrading the kernel on a woody box

2001-11-01 Thread Russell Coker
Firstly I'm moving this to the debian-user list as it's got nothing to do with KDE. In future please ask such questions on debian-user, feel free to CC me on such questions as I maintain the devfsd and lilo packages. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:11, rikiwarren wrote: > I've downloaded the kernel-imag

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthias G. Imhof wrote: >I am actually having the same problems as the original poster, but my modultils >are version 2.4.1 which I must have gotten as a deb file from unstable or >testing. > >Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.1?

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Matthias G. Imhof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in > /lib/modules/2.4.1? insmod and friends can use these modules. The directory structure under /lib/modules/2.4*/ has changed. It seems that modconf isn't modified so that it finds the module

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Matthias G. Imhof
I am actually having the same problems as the original poster, but my modultils are version 2.4.1 which I must have gotten as a deb file from unstable or testing. Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.1? insmod and friends can use these modules. Matthias -- *

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040101 17:44]: > > unstable is a symlink to sid now. sid is permanent unstable it will > never be released, it will never be frozen. Why is this? rob

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > >> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > >> > kernels ne

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: >> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... >> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 >> > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). >> >> unstable !

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > > kernels need at leas

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != t

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I ins

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != testing > > You

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). unstable != testing You need the modutils from unstable (sid). Keep

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:13:47PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Most of them are available from woody (you don't have to do a full > upgrade to woody, just upgrade the required parts). modutils 2.3.18 > isn't available however but I found 2.3.23 somewhere in the pool directory > and it instal

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Nico De Ranter
I found a mail from a few days ago (wasn't in the archives yet?) that solved my problem: make sure you have at least the following versions: > > o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version > > o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version > > o binutils

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Horton
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:41:38AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > > can't find any modules anymore. > > > > You simply need a newer version of moduti

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > can't find any modules anymore. > > You simply need a newer version of modutils.

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. You simply need a newer version of modutils. You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Horton
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I install modu