Upgrading Debian (debian-installer beta 2) to a modern kernel
An upgrade to a modern kernel is available now for people who have
installed Debian on their NSLU2 using debian-installer beta 2. The
following does not apply to users of DebianSlug (the manual
debootstrap method) but only to those who used debian-installer as
described at http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ Please also note that
this is only for people who want to upgrade from an existing system
installed with debian-installer beta 2 to a modern kernel - people who
want to install a fresh Debian have to wait about one more week until
we release release candidate 1 of debian-installer.
The reason why a manual upgrade is necessary is described on the
upgrade page but in short: we've made some major changes to allow
kernels larger than 1 MB (a limitation NSLU2's RedBoot has) and this
requires you to flash a new image. Since no data is stored in flash
when you use Debian, this is not a problem.
The actual instructions are available at:
http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/upgrade.html
If you follow these instructions, your NSLU2 will boot into a new
2.6.17 kernel with the flash layout that allows us to have larger
kernels than 1 MB and this in turn allows us to share one kernel with
other IXP4xx boards.
I am now working on 2.6.18 and will integrate the open source Ethernet
driver.
If you have any problems with this upgrade process, please post to the
mailing list and I will try to help.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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