installing kernel 2.6: running into problems
Hi folks,
I run sid on a Blue&White G3, with my main systme booting off of a
scsi hard drive. I'd like to (finally!) move to the 2.6 kernel,
mostly to take advantage of udev, which seems very cool and which I'm
sure will be a significant help in dealing with my digital camera, usb
pen drives,palm pilot, firewire drive, etc.
However, I'm not able to get 2.6 kernels to work. here are my
problems:
1) stock debian 2.6.10 kernel: tried loading this up, and after some
initial troubles with the ramdisk got that working. However, the root
file system won't load -- instead, I go into single-user mode with the
message "sda5 is not a valid ext2 filesystem. try running fsck" --
or something like that, unfortunately the message doesn't make it into
/var/log/messages. When I go to type in the root password, my (apple
standard) usb keyboard doesn't work.
2) so I compiled my own kernel(2.6.11, using the debian source
package), starting from my working 2.24.25 and a broken 2.6.5 I tried 9 months
ago. With this the machine boots up and, according to
/var/log/syslog, works internally (e.g., cron is clearly running).
However, again, all the USB peripherals are useless. Fortunately,
this time stuff is recorded in /var//log/messages. Not much happens,
so I'll enclose most of the transcript here:
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Mar 28 17:13:15 matts-mac syslogd 1.4.1#16: restart.
Mar 28 17:13:15 matts-mac kernel: klogd 1.4.1#16, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Mar 28 17:13:15 matts-mac kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.11-20050328-02-fb-attempt
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: Loaded 37279 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.11-20050328-02-fb-attempt.
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.11.
***************** this next line looks important!!!! *****************
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: rcvd
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: ieee1394: SelfIDs failed monotony check with 22/0
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: ieee1394: Error in SelfID stage, resetting
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: pcilynx0: resetting bus (long bus reset) on request
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: pcilynx0: bus reset interrupt
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: pcilynx0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, root)
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[long sequence of ieee-related lines above -- probably due to a bug in
the pcilynx0 driver -- not important, I ended up buying a new fw card
anyway]
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Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: ieee1394: Stopping out-of-control reset loop
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: ieee1394: Warning - topology map and speed map will not be valid
Mar 28 17:13:16 matts-mac kernel: pcilynx0: invalid transaction code
Mar 28 17:13:34 matts-mac xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable)
Mar 28 17:13:35 matts-mac xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)
Mar 28 17:13:36 matts-mac Xprt_64: No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = 0 (32775), nplanes = 8
Mar 28 17:13:57 matts-mac gconfd (matt-2327): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 2327 user 'matt'
Mar 28 17:13:57 matts-mac gconfd (matt-2327): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Mar 28 17:13:57 matts-mac gconfd (matt-2327): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/matt/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Mar 28 17:13:57 matts-mac gconfd (matt-2327): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Mar 28 17:33:15 matts-mac -- MARK --
Mar 28 17:53:15 matts-mac -- MARK --
Mar 28 18:34:03 matts-mac syslogd 1.4.1#16: restart.
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so look! not modules loaded! No USB devices recognized! somehow the
system boots anyway (I find that kind of astonishing!). Why would this
be happening? The config file for this kernel contains the following
stanza:
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y
that looks like modules are enabled, doesn't it? The whole config
file is at:
http://www.derailleur.org/.configfiles/config-2.6.11-20050328-02-fb-attempt
if you look at it you'll see that usb support etc. is enabled.
Though apparently not all as modules:
#
# USB Input Devices
#
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
# CONFIG_HID_FF is not set
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
but I don't see that this would be a problem. anyway, this is a real
problem for me -- if anyone has any clues how to proceed I'd be very
grateful.
thanks,
matt
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