Re: Kernel 2.6 on a PegasOS?
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:16:12PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
>
> > setting load-bvase beyond 24MB (ideally 32MB) should work.
> > PRoblem is if you use a huge ramdisk which is loaded down from 64MB though, so
> > setting load-base to 64MB should be fine.
>
> > Indeed, but the default debian kernel should have worked just fine, but forget
> > about the sarge kernels, and give 2.6.16 a try.
>
> I upgrade to sid, and installed the 2.6.16-2-powerpc. Set the load-base to
> the value '100000', and the kernel loaded and boot just fine! Thanx!!
>
> However, what would be the _correct_ value for load-base? I do I set it to
> '64M'?
64MB should be fine, since it is beyond the place where the ramdisk gets
copied. As long as you have at least 128MB or 96Mb of ram, obviously.
> A little problem with the _system_ though. It does seem to go up correctly,
> even though I don't have a keyboard, X won't start and I can't login with
> ssh (no authentication modules worked).
it is a ramdisk kernel, so you need to use initramfs-tools to create an initrd
for you, but normally this ramdisk is automatically created, and mkvmlinuz is
invoked to do the right thing, so no idea about your problem.
Maybe you can investigate the ramdisk ? It is an initramfs-tools, so you can
look at it with some cpio magic.
> I'm not sure if this is because there's no device files (udev seemed to start
> though) or if I'm missing (to load) some modules...
Or both. Try adding the modules you think you are missing to /etc/modules.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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