Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-09 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:46, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Yeah, I figured that out after looking at the dependency list of > the kernel-packages.  I'm wondering though if using gcc3.3 would > have any impact (since everything else on the stable system would > have the programs compiled with gcc

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-09 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Colin Watson wrote: > The kernel doesn't use the libc, so I expect that this is a red herring. > (I don't know the real answer, though.) Yeah, I figured that out after looking at the dependency list of the kernel-packages. I'm wondering though if using gcc3.3 would have any impact (since everyth

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:29:51PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > My server runs Debian stable, while my workstation runs Debian testing. > Since the server is a slower machine, I would like to create the kernel > package on my workstation and install the deb package on my server. > Is this poss

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Monday 08 December 2003 00:59, Bill Goudie wrote: > The unresolved symbols still exist -- depmod is run with "-q" > from /etc/init.d/modutils.  This suppresses the error warnings. Well, what I did was run this from the command line: # depmod -a Even this: # depmod -a -e And it doesn't complai

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:37:16PM -0600, Bill Goudie wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:28:41PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > > On Sunday 07 December 2003 23:11, Bill Goudie wrote: > > > The upshot of all this is that modules with unresolved symbols > > > require functions which were exclude

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:28:41PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 23:11, Bill Goudie wrote: > > The upshot of all this is that modules with unresolved symbols > > require functions which were excluded from both the kernel and any > > other installed modules for that k

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 07 December 2003 23:11, Bill Goudie wrote: > The upshot of all this is that modules with unresolved symbols > require functions which were excluded from both the kernel and any > other installed modules for that kernel version.  If for some > reason you built this module but don't need it

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:46:09AM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Magnus von Koeller wrote: > > I mean, after all, you can still boot to the old kernel with LinuxOLD, > > can't you? Or is your machine that uptime-critical? > > No, I'm just worried because I have unplugged everything on it (moni

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 07 December 2003 19:28, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Do you mean to install the kernel and ignore the unresolved symbol > errors?  Then try booting the new kernel to see if it actually > works? That's what I did in your exact situation and it worked out just fine. I'm not getting any errors

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Magnus von Koeller wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 18:06, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I'm a little late in the thread, but I think I am having the same problem. Last night I compiled a vanilla 2.4.23 kernel on my Sid workstation to then install it on my Woody server. Before doing the compile, I mov

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 07 December 2003 18:06, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I'm a little late in the thread, but I think I am having the same > problem.  Last night I compiled a vanilla 2.4.23 kernel on my Sid > workstation to then install it on my Woody server.  Before doing > the compile, I moved my /usr/bin/gcc

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John L. Fjellstad wrote: Magnus von Koeller wrote: I mean, after all, you can still boot to the old kernel with LinuxOLD, can't you? Or is your machine that uptime-critical? No, I'm just worried because I have unplugged everything on it (monitor, keyboard etc). So the only way I will find out s

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:46, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > No, I'm just worried because I have unplugged everything on it > (monitor, keyboard etc). So the only way I will find out something > is wrong is if it doesn't come up after a couple of minutes (and > then I have to spend some time pluggi

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-07 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Magnus von Koeller wrote: > I mean, after all, you can still boot to the old kernel with LinuxOLD, > can't you? Or is your machine that uptime-critical? No, I'm just worried because I have unplugged everything on it (monitor, keyboard etc). So the only way I will find out something is wrong is if

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-06 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Saturday 06 December 2003 02:05, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > The reason I got worried was because it's the first time I tried to > kompile the kernel on a different system than the one I was going > to install it on. Well, I'm telling you - I was just as worried as you were. I mean, I was insta

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-06 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > When you install the modules deb you will get unresolved symbols because > the running kernel is not the same. Goes away when you boot with the new > kernel. But that doesn't make sense, because then I would see the same kind of behaviour (depmod complaining about missing

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Magnus von Koeller wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:29, John L. Fjellstad wrote: When I tried, I got several unresolved symbols when installing the deb package during the /sbin/depmod -a stage. I'm guessing because testing uses libc6 2.3.2, while stable uses libc6 2.2.5. Hey, finally some

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-05 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:29, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > When I tried, I got several unresolved symbols when installing the > deb package during the /sbin/depmod -a stage.  I'm guessing because > testing uses libc6 2.3.2, while stable uses libc6 2.2.5. Hey, finally someone with the same prob