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Re: kernel without smp



On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:25:24PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> On 11/22/06 03:28:25AM +0100, sigi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:23:36PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > > No affect in that both CPUs are always detected or just that the box still
> > > locks up? 
> > 
> > If I remember right, the nosmp-option produced a kernel-panic during 
> > boot-time, and maxcpus=1 froze the keyboard while trying to get my IP 
> > with ifup.
> > 
> > > Although either way your only real option is to compile a custom
> > > kernel for UP. 
> > 
> > I tried this yesterday, but dpkg didn't install my custom kernel... I 
> > don't know, what the problem was - I tried the 'official' debian way, 
> > and only disabled smp-support from the debian-kernelimage config-file. 
> > But dpkg could not install it....
> > 
> 
> You did use make-kpkg to build it first, right?

I used this howto:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch08s06.html

but when I try to install my custom kernel, dpkg fails with this 
message: 

------------------------------------------------
Missing Required paramater 'Old' at 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17.postinst line 393.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von linux-image-2.6.17 (--install):
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 2 zurück 
------------------------------------------------

sigi.



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