Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:08:05PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have
> > > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as
> > > > of the sarge release.
> > >
> > > I successfully booted the powerpc-pmac kernel with quik on my
> > > oldworld, so apparently the size is not a problem for quik.
> > >
> > > However, it didn't load the modules. I had copied the modules into
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-powerpc-pmac/
> > >
> > > As they had been unpacked on my newworld from the deb. But during
> > > boot, the kernel was looking in
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-powerpc/
> >
> > Are you sure you booted the right kernel, and not one of the older
> > 2.4.22-1 kernels ?
>
> Yes. In fact it did the same on my newworld, where I had actually
> installed the deb using dpkg --install. I wasn't able to get
> online for the last day or so, and I finally noticed it couldn't
> load any modules during the boot messages -- so that was why.
>
> Changing the /lib/modules directory name to match the uname
> fixed it. AFAICT.
I know why that is, i use --add-to-version=-powerpc for the build
target, and --add-to-version=-powerpc-subarch to make the images.
I don't know if kernel-package can do this, maybe it is too limiting,
and i seriously am thinking about doing this all without kernel-package,
which is too limiting i find.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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