Re: Installing new kernel

[Martin Skøtt <martin@z3n.dk>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 05:04:02PM -0300, augustofr@brturbo.com wrote:
>     Im trying to upgrade the kernel on my Toshiba from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.5 (source)
> or 2.6.4 (debian source, downloaded with apt). Everything compile well, but when rebooting  and selecting the new kernel image the screen becomes black... i dont get even a "kernel panic" message. And if i boot using the old kernel image, works fine.

Have you read one of the many guides on upgrading to 2.6? If not take
a look at some of the following:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5793467888.html

A really good one to read is:
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt

Take extra note of the "Known gotcha's" section. The first one
mentioned sounds like what you are experiencing with your
machine. Also remember that you need to install module-init-tools if
you are using modules.

A module-init-tools package is in unstable and a backport can be found
on http://backports.org. It works for me :-)

> Obs: the kernel runs my lilo, and install things on /boot... im using the image it puts
> on /boot to boot.

I'm not sure I understand what you are writing here. You are using
kernel-package right? Its an absolutely brilliant tool for creating
Debian packages of you kernels.

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Regards
Martin Skøtt