Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:15:38PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 03:16 pm:
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:35:55AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > >
> > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
> > > 2.6.14-rc5-powerpc) while running a kernel of version
> > > 2.4.27-powerpc, but
> >
> > Why in hell are you running a 2.4.27 kernel ? This was not the default
> > sarge kernel and i expicitly mentioned it should not be used, having
> > been mostly abandoned upstream over two years ago.
>
> As I said in my other email, I couldn't install using the sarge netboot
> installer (missing yaboot binary and config, and the woody yaboot
> wouldn't load the initrd.gz that is available for netbooting). So, I
> installed woody, and dist-upgraded to testing.
You did file an installation report though, right ?
> I've tried installing other 2.6 kernels, but (as I said before), they all
> kernel panic when loading the ide driver for the chipset on the machine
> (blue&white G3).
Ah, yes, i remember that. Did you file a bug report against the kernel for
that ?
> If I wanted to be running a 2.4 kernel, why do you think I'd be trying to
> upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, anyways? ;)
:)
> > > you have no suitable ramdisk generation tool installed among
> > > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.
> > > This will break the installation, unless a
> > > suitable ramdisk generation tool is also being installed right
> > > now.
> >
> > Exact, yaird cannot build initrd's running on a 2.4.27 kernel, since
> > it need /sys, which is only present in 2.6 kernels.
> >
> > So, you have two ways, either use initramfs-tools instead of yaird
> > (altough mostly untested on powerpc, may work though), or do an
> > intermediary upgrade to the sarge 2.6.8 kernels or the etch 2.6.12
> > ones, reboot and then install, not the 2.6.14-rc5 kernels, but the
> > 2.6.14-1 currently in sid.
>
> As I said before, 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 debian kernels panic on boot when
> they're loading the driver for my IDE controller (cmd646 chipset on a
> blue&white G3). I was trying to install 2.6.14 to see if that fixes the
> problem I was having, but it seems to have its own problems in being
> installed from a system running a 2.4.27 kernel.
Just try out initramfs-tools, but it seems rather unlikely that this problem
is fixed in 2.6.14, not sure though. Please file a bug report.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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