On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
[..]
> >
> > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from
> > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, whereas knoppix
> > doesn't
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >
> > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to
> > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On
> > all my o
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to
> resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On
> all my old boxes (that are still new enough to run Debian), drive
> failures sta
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:02PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I hope you kept backups and if not, make a full set before you do
> > anything else. That is,
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from
> > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement
[...]
> > Problem
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
> Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from
> the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement
> was:
[snip: old LVM setup] See my note at the bottom.
> /usr used also to be in the LVM
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
This is a long shot, but bear with me please.
I run a two-seater desktop with suspend2 in a 2.6.17.13-ck1 custom kernel.
I use no initrd image.
But with suspend2 you can have a user interface showing you what is
happening in either text of fb. Text is good enough f
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:13 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_fbsplash not found.
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_text not found.
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_usplash not found.
>
> Question:
>
> These are "user built" modules and not kernel built modules, they don't
>
fai amd wrote:
> Hi
>
> i am trying to create a initrd image that i can use for nfsboot for a
> fai process. i get this error and there is no "initrd*img" file created
> in the current directory. i am kind of clueless as to why it is
> happening. i would appreciate some help
>
> modules below th
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:54:55PM +0200, Tom Larard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to mount my root partition on /dev/evms/hda1. Currently it is
> mounted on /dev/hda1. (The reason for wanting to do this is so I can
> use hda[2-10] with evms)
>
> Mkinitrd correctly probes my root device (as it is no
On Thursday 22 July 2004 15:57, Alec Berryman wrote:
> I'm trying to do software raid on a fresh install of Woody with a
> 2.4.26 kernel. In order to load the software raid I need to make an
> initrd image, so I installed initrd-tools. However, when I run
> mkinitrd, I get the following message:
What do you mean you've installed raidtools2 but are using mdadm? I
believe the problem could be this:
o initrd-tools works on the assumption you're using devfs
o if you're not using devfs, but you are using raidtools2 to manage
your array, then software RAID should still work (I say this based
Ron Rademaker wrote:
Hello,
This 'll probably be a piece of cake for those of you who have any
experience using mkinitrd, I found a howto on how to get my raid system
to work. However I gotta make an image, the howto was written for RH and
the mkinitrd of Debian seems to be something else. If anyo
On Fri, 30 May 2003 00:50:55 +0200 (MEST)
Axel Gerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I have a Highpoint HPT370A Raid Controller. Highpoint offers just an
> module (which works) but no kernel patch. Due the fact, that I want / to
> reside on the raid, I think the module should be in the initrd
> This question is not easy to answer without knowing more about what you have
> and what you're trying to do.
>
> Can you explain what kind of hardware you're trying to support, what
> distribution of Debian (and which kernel) you're running, and what you need
> to do? In particular, why do you th
> cp initrd.img initrd.gz
> gunzip initrd.gz
> mkdir mnt
> mount -o loop initrd mnt
> Now, copy whatever you want into mnt/...
> umount initrd
> gzip initrd
> cp initrd.gz initrdnew.img
Well, thx. But there are two more problems then. How to get the module
loaded and the error "disk full".
Yours
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:50:10 +0200, Axel Gerster wrote:
>> > can someone please explain to me how to get an module into an existing
>> > initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup? Or does someone know a good
>> > howto?
>>
If you just want to add a module, and not recreate it from scratch, try
this:
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:22:18 +0200 (MEST)
Axel Gerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I only have the source code for a module. How to patch it into the kernel?
This question is not easy to answer without knowing more about what you have
and what you're trying to do.
Can you explain what kind of h
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:22, Axel Gerster wrote:
> > Would it be easier for you to embed the module into the kernel?
>
> I only have the source code for a module. How to patch it into the kernel?
1) run make menuconfig
2) read "Legend" in Main Menu
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> > can someone please explain to me how to get an module
> > into an existing initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup?
> > Or does someone know a good howto?
>
> Have you checked the Kernel HOWTO?
Yes, I have. But the Explanation there does not contain any things like:
Which files do I need. Which
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 16:22, Axel Gerster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can someone please explain to me how to get an module
> into an existing initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup?
> Or does someone know a good howto?
Have you checked the Kernel HOWTO?
If you look back through the archives of this l
, January 21, 2003 2:21 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: mkinitrd trouble
_I_AM_NO_EXPERT_
Did you compile the kernel with cramfs, also?
You didn't mention it.
-Original Message-
From: James Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21,
on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:49:13PM -0600, James Miller wrote about mkinitrd trouble:
> Hello all
>
> I am pulling my hair trying to get Debian Woody to boot with an initrd
> image. I have compiled the kernel 2.4.18 with Loopback device support, RAM
> disk support , 8192KB, and initrd (all compile
_I_AM_NO_EXPERT_
Did you compile the kernel with cramfs, also?
You didn't mention it.
-Original Message-
From: James Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mkinitrd trouble
Hello all
I am pulling my hair trying to get
On 21 Jan 2003, 12:49:13, James Miller wrote:
> Here is a snippet of lilo.conf
> default=Linux
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux-initrd
> initrd=/inird-2.4.18-12.img
don't you mean
initrd-2.4.18-12.img . . .
> a
begin Decibels quotation:
>
> in Debian. I have search google till I just became confused with the
> issue. I find all kinds of
> references to Debian and mkinitrd, but it isn't on either of my Debian
> installs, apt-get can't
> find it either and it looks like it isn't available as a package
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
...
> What is the Debian way to make an initrd-image?
no expertise here, but a google search showed me were to get the
Redhad initrd package. Next step downloading it. Used alien to
turn it into a deb package, use dpkg to unpack it, adop
Ethan Benson wrote:
[snip]
>
> what i am saying is that this method of booting is more complicated
> and thus more prone to failure, then simply hitting `y' instead of `m'
> to precisely one option in your kernel configuration. as far as the
> rest of the system is concerned all you need to ch
please don't CC replies, i read the list and don't need two copies.
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:36:31PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
>
> I want to boot the system the same way Storm Linux installed it and that was
> with scsi support compiled as modules. And as you already know, if you compile
> al
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
> >
> > I agree that having SCSI compiled as a module gives me no benefits but I
> still
> > want to do an initrd-image. Your suggestion, which I appreciate very much,
> > does not solve my problem; it goes around
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
>
> I agree that having SCSI compiled as a module gives me no benefits but I still
> want to do an initrd-image. Your suggestion, which I appreciate very much,
> does not solve my problem; it goes around it.
i am not clear on what you n
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I'm an old Red Hatter that have resently converted to Debian (or rather
> > Stormix Linux 2000 Deluxe). I've upgraded my system to woody to get
> X4.0.2. I
> > also installed modutils 2.4.2 so I
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm an old Red Hatter that have resently converted to Debian (or rather
> Stormix Linux 2000 Deluxe). I've upgraded my system to woody to get X4.0.2. I
> also installed modutils 2.4.2 so I can compile a 2.4.2 kernel. And he
See kernel-package. It's the Debian way to build an install kernels.
Takes care of all that stuff...
$ cd $HOME/src/kernel-source-X.X.X
$ make menuconfig
$ make-kpkg clean
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 5:myhost.1.0 kernel_image
$ su
Password:
$ dpkg -i ../kernel-image*.deb
$ reboot
You might
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