Re: kernel install problems on ibook 2.2 with sarge
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:04:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:52:40PM +0100, mark de vries wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > I hope someone here can tell me what might be wrong.
> >
> > For several times already i have tried to install a new kernel after the
> > original install of the 2.6 kernel with Sarge. Because i read that the
> > pmu works with the 2.4 kernel i wanted to install that one. Because
> > previously the installation of a self-compiled kernel has failed in the
> > same way i went safe and just did
> > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-power3-pmac
>
> 1) This is a 2.4.27 kernel, 2.4 kernels have been abandoned by upstream (read
> benh :) on powerpc since about february 2004 (or was it 2003, well forever).
> Please don't use them, but use the 2.6 kernels present in sarge or better even
> sid (2.6.8 and 2.6.11).
>
> 2) you are trying to install a kernel for a IBM Power3 cpu on your ibook which
> probably has either a IBM 750 Cxe or Fx cpu (aka G3) or a Motorola (now
> Freescale) 7447 cpu (aka G4). All of those are 32bit cpus using the powerpc
> flavour, while the Power3 is a 64bit cpu (predecessor of the Power4 which
> fathered the 970, aka G5) used in IBM RS6K and pseries machines of a couple of
> years ago.
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc
>
> should do the right thing for you.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
ok, i dit that, but am not sure that things are ok now. See the output
of my system below. It seems that vmlinux still points to
vmlinux2.4.23-newpmac, while both the old and new initrd symlinks seem
to point to the 2.6.8 kernel!
Best,
Mark.
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....
The directory /lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc still exists. Continuing as
directed.
Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc ...
Setting up mkvmlinuz (13) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (2.6.8-12) ...
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.8-6)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.8-6)
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz
ida:/home/mark# ls -l /boot
total 13508
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35866 2003-12-01 07:31 config-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40003 2005-03-20 12:43 config-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2035712 2005-07-16 22:31
initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 1976-04-01 10:15 initrd.old ->
initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 667271 2003-12-01 08:31
System.map-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 944355 2005-03-20 15:51
System.map-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 2005-07-16 17:33 vmlinux ->
vmlinux-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4513449 2003-12-01 08:31 vmlinux-2.4.23-newpmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3966633 2005-03-20 15:51 vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1588880 2003-12-01 08:31
vmlinux.coff-2.4.23-newpmac
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 1976-04-01 10:15 vmlinux.old ->
vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
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