Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/30/2011 07:32 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:01:47 -0400 (EDT), Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I'm looking forward to working through a couple of build scenarios using that page as a guide. Your efforts at this and on this list are much appreciated. Thanks, Gilbert. I updat

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:01:47 -0400 (EDT), Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > I'm looking forward to working through a couple of build scenarios > using that page as a guide. Your efforts at this and on this list > are much appreciated. Thanks, Gilbert. I updated the page again today to fix some typos

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/29/2011 07:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Based on new stuff that I've learned over the last month and a half, much of which has been learned from Camaleón's recent thread about reducing kernel compilation time, I have published a revised version of my kernel-building web page

Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
Based on new stuff that I've learned over the last month and a half, much of which has been learned from Camaleón's recent thread about reducing kernel compilation time, I have published a revised version of my kernel-building web page http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.ht

Kernel-building web page updated; new LILO page

2011-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
I have updated my kernel-building web page. The changes include the following: o new Squeeze banner o squeeze-updates instead of debian-volatile o LILO stuff moved to a separate web page o examples switched to i386 architecture and Squeeze (instead of s390 and Lenny) o

Re: New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:03:47 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: > > Under Introduction: "...recommendation was *make* for simplicity's > sake, not for philosophical reasons." Should be "made". Good catch! That's the trouble with spell-checkers. They can tell you if you misspelled a word, but not

Re: New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >  I welcome > further review and feedback, especially from those who wanted an Nvidia > example.  Is this the kind of thing you were looking for?  Or did I miss > the mark? Under Introduction: "...recommendation was *make* for simplicity's sa

New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
Several months ago I asked those on this list to give me their opinion of a web page that I wrote on building a custom kernel for Debian: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm Responses were generally favorable, but among the calls for improvement were the following: (1) instructions

Re: Kernel building 2.6.18-5-686 -> 2.6.25.2 on VMWare

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Ely
On 5/15/08 6:59 AM, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Ely wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm trying to update from the Debian-supplied stock kernel to 2.6.25.2 on >> Etch (for GFS2 purposes), and, on my VMWare instance, the new kernel seems >> always to hang at "Waiting for root file

Re: Kernel building 2.6.18-5-686 -> 2.6.25.2 on VMWare

2008-05-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike Ely wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to update from the Debian-supplied stock kernel to 2.6.25.2 on Etch (for GFS2 purposes), and, on my VMWare instance, the new kernel seems always to hang at "Waiting for root filesystem." So as I understand it, you run Etch on VMware and compile (with make-

Kernel building 2.6.18-5-686 -> 2.6.25.2 on VMWare

2008-05-13 Thread Mike Ely
Hi there, I'm trying to update from the Debian-supplied stock kernel to 2.6.25.2 on Etch (for GFS2 purposes), and, on my VMWare instance, the new kernel seems always to hang at "Waiting for root filesystem." I've tried passing different options to make-kpkg, but the result is always the same. Ke

Re: Kernel building not idempotent?

2007-06-11 Thread Caeles
(Sorry if this breaks threading. I had forgotten to mention that I am not subscribed to the list.) Wackojacko wrote: > Caeles wrote: > > [...] the custom kernel does not use an > > initramfs [...] > > Thought so, his is the problem. Debian kernels build the majority o

Re: Kernel building not idempotent?

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:56:59AM +0200, Caeles wrote: > > I have trouble with building a custom kernel and hope somebody can help. Not that it helps, but why do you need a custom kernel? What hardware do you have that doesn't work? Note that with Etch, SATA drives now show up as /dev/sd* rath

Re: Kernel building not idempotent?

2007-06-07 Thread Wackojacko
Caeles wrote: I have trouble with building a custom kernel and hope somebody can help. Short story: The last thing I tried was to unpack the kernel sources, unpack /proc/config.gz to .config, run make-kpkg, install the resulting binary package, and try the lines new for grub. I would have expect

Kernel building not idempotent?

2007-06-07 Thread Caeles
I have trouble with building a custom kernel and hope somebody can help. Short story: The last thing I tried was to unpack the kernel sources, unpack /proc/config.gz to .config, run make-kpkg, install the resulting binary package, and try the lines new for grub. I would have expected, that this s

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2005-05-25, Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. I don't know much about this, but perhaps it's as simple as "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img".

Re: [SOLVED] Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules > install" > > > (after > > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There

Re: Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread John W Mislan
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en | Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched k

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > > (after > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > > fundamental > > issue here, however, regard

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing that you do have initrd enabled in the kernel? > > Block Devices -> RAM Disk Support -> Initial RAM disk (initrd) > > phil Actually, I didn't. I never had it turned on. But I went ahead and got back to the debien kernel-source package and

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. > So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am > guessing it i

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched kernel

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tra

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tracking unstable through mirr

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > (after > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > fundamental > issue here, however, regarding custom kernels in a debian system, > which I > address below. > > > > >

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: --- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both vmlinuz links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is not goi

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package > version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both > vmlinuz > links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is > not going through.

Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-24 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi all, I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both vmlinuz links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is not going through. I usually end up building the initrd images myself (I bet som

Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David
I've been experimenting with my kernel-building procedure.. I've been building kernel-images for a while.. since I'm on dialup, and it takes so long to download the complete source every time, I keep the kernel-source..orig file.. currently I have 2.4.21... I then download the

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:49:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:20:32PM -0500, David wrote: > > Are you talking about the kernel.org packages here? The diff'ing I'm > > talking about is where you get say, > > kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21-orig.tar.gz from Debian, and apply

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:51:01AM -0500, David wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:49:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:20:32PM -0500, David wrote: > > > Are you talking about the kernel.org packages here? The diff'ing > > > I'm talking about is where you get say, > >

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:20:32PM -0500, David wrote: > Are you talking about the kernel.org packages here? The diff'ing I'm > talking about is where you get say, > kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21-orig.tar.gz from Debian, and apply, say, > kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21-4.diff.tar.gz, from Debian.. Thi

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:56:03PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been building kernel-images for a while.. since I'm on dialup, and > > it takes so long to download the complete source every time, I keep the > > kernel-source..orig file.. currently I ha

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been building kernel-images for a while.. since I'm on dialup, and > it takes so long to download the complete source every time, I keep the > kernel-source..orig file.. currently I have 2.4.21... > > I then download the current "kernel-source..diff" and a

Re: Kernel building made easier

2003-07-15 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, sudeep mukherjee wrote: > I have a Celeron 600MHz with 40 GB Hard Disk. Should be plenty fast for the majority of tasks (browsing, news, mp3s, several video formats, etc) > I already have WINXp(Sorry for this) Don't be sorry for that, Windows XP has its place in the world.

Re: Kernel building made easier

2003-07-15 Thread sudeep mukherjee
Hi I have a Celeron 600MHz with 40 GB Hard Disk. I already have WINXp(Sorry for this) and RH9.0. Want to install Debian Woody. Anypointers would be welcome. Thanks in advance -- .~. Sudeep Mukherjee /V\ Registered Linux user # 255384 // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ --

Kernel building made easier

2003-07-11 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
I've written a wrapper around make-kpkg, similar to kernellab, but different. Take a look at http://jerhard.org/files/kernel-builder-snapshot.tar.gz Sorry for the lack of documentation. Though all the scripts do support --help, and you get all the source... ;-) Bye, J --

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-30 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Caitrin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [30-11-2002 01:49]: > Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building > that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I always look for information in the [1]Reference Manual first. It has a ded

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-30 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Chris Lale wrote: > > > Caitrin Torres wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building >> that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? > > > There is an article at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ th

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
Caitrin Torres wrote: Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? There is an article at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ that may help. Cheers, Chris. -- : ___ Chris Lale <[EM

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Caitrin Torres
On Friday 29 November 2002 08:14 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Don't trust me on any of this, I have no clue what a bpck6 module > is :-) It's the module required by some Microsolutions Backpack cdroms and cd burners. Thank you for the help. -- Caitrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Caitrin" == Caitrin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Caitrin> Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel Caitrin> building that'd be suitable for someone who's never built Caitrin> a kernel before? I have an external CD burner that is Caitrin> supposed to use

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 00:44, Caitrin Torres wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building > that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I > have an external CD burner that is supposed to use the bpck6 module. > A search

kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Caitrin Torres
Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I have an external CD burner that is supposed to use the bpck6 module. A search confirmed that it's a part of the kernel-image and kernel-header

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-13T05:33:11Z, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked at /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz and > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz ? Yes, I have. Those (particularly README.gz) and 'man make-kpkg' gave me enough information to get the job done, b

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian kernel packages > from one time to the next (it's not like I do it all that often), so I made > a web page to detail the process. It's at > http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/Debian

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian Kirk> kernel packages from one time to the next (it's not like I do Kirk> it all that often), so I made a web page to detail the process. Kirk> It's at Kirk> http://subwiki

Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian kernel packages from one time to the next (it's not like I do it all that often), so I made a web page to detail the process. It's at http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding . Would any of you be so kind as to

Kernel Building and Patching

2002-06-27 Thread Bill Moseley
Yesterday I installed Debian on a laptop. I used the XFS ISO disk from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ and then dist-upgraded to woody and installed pcmcia card manager pcmcia-cs by picking "laptop" in tasksel. I have a SMC 2632W wireless card, but it seems like the drivers inst

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:58, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel... > > > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel... > > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way, resulted in a few module dep > > errors... > > So i've searched t

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Michael P
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, wsa wrote: > Which one would be the most stable? > 10 .12 .13 .14 or .16? I would go for 2.4.17. 2.4 has stopped regressing, and looks to be getting better with every release, so I'd stick with the newest if I were you.

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread wsa
Hi, Okidoki...thanks for the help. One more thing...i think i'm gonna jumpt to the 2.4 kernel...using the debian kernel packages. Which one would be the most stable? 10 .12 .13 .14 or .16? Cheerios At 13:20 27-12-2001 +0100, you wrote: make-kpkg needs some debian-specific stuff, but debian's k

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100: > Hi, > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel... > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way, resulted in a few module dep > errors... > So i've searched the web and also came across this one: > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system

kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread wsa
Hi, I'm just trying to build my second kernel... Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way, resulted in a few module dep errors... So i've searched the web and also came across this one: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html Now what would be the best way to go about build

Kernel building - missing symbols :-(

2001-06-27 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install a special application which comes with a binary only :-( module. When I try to load the module I get: mvfs.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074 mvfs.o: unresolved symbol panic_Rsmp_01075bf0 I think I missed something in the kernel however I can't figure out wha

Re: kernel building errors

2000-04-24 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Looks like you have just not installed the Libncurses4-dev package. After you've done that, It'll probably work. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DebianUsers Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:00 PM

kernel building errors

2000-04-24 Thread Jon Hughes
I am attempting to build kernal 2.2.12 onto a machine that currentlyhas 2.0.36. I downloaded the proper kernel from kernel.org and then began the proper steps. When I get to running make menuconfig (I don't have KDE on this machine since my 'net connection for downloading it is worse than a 2400

Kernel building fault...

2000-04-01 Thread Mikael Grahn
I'm using the woody release of Debian and have had a problem the last part of this month. I've had IRQ problems and problems with the kernel not recognising how much mem i have in the machine. I've been thinking i've had harware problems and been trying to find the fault. Now i've noticed that it

Re: problem in kernel building: as86

1998-10-25 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jinsong Zhao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm building the kernel 2.0.35 for SB AWE card. When I run "make > zImage", it ends with "as86 not found". I link as86 to /usr/bin/as, > then it complains about the "unrecognized option -O". > > Which package should I install to get as86? bin86 Mike St

problem in kernel building: as86

1998-10-25 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi, I'm building the kernel 2.0.35 for SB AWE card. When I run "make zImage", it ends with "as86 not found". I link as86 to /usr/bin/as, then it complains about the "unrecognized option -O". Which package should I install to get as86? Thanks! Jinsong

Re: kernel building

1997-11-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote: > I am trying to build a new kernel, but the build keeps erring out. It > fails with the following: > > objdump: illegal option -- k > > Any ideas? rm `which encaps` -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/

kernel building

1997-11-10 Thread Michael Roark
I am trying to build a new kernel, but the build keeps erring out. It fails with the following: objdump: illegal option -- k Any ideas? Thanks, Michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .