Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4.
> >> Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to
> >
> > The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18 and sid's 2.6.20. If i
> > where you, i would install the etch 2.6.18 kernel, and if you really
> > need something custom use the etch source package to build your own
> > kernel, starting from the /boot/config-2.6.18... file.
>
> It looks like i seldom have luck on installing pre-compiled kernel
> provided by debian.. This time again.
>
> What does this error mean?
It means you have not installed the dependencies of the package. that it
tries to call mkvmlinuz is a hint that you are not on powermac, or that
you do something strange.
> ,----[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ]
> | Reading package lists... Done
> | Building dependency tree... Done
> | Suggested packages:
> | linux-doc-2.6.18
> | The following NEW packages will be installed:
> | linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc
> | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 513 not upgraded.
> | Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives.
> | After unpacking 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
> | Preconfiguring packages ...
> | (Reading database ... 174438 files and directories currently installed.)
> | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb) ...
> | Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 238, <STDIN> line 9.
> | Ok, Aborting
Try apt-get install initramfs-tools. I wonder how you where able to
install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc without it automatically pulling in
either yaird or initramfs-tools. This is a RC bug in itself if it is
confirmed. But :
The dependencies are :
Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13), coreutils (>= 5.96), mkvmlinuz
(>= 24), initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) |
linux-initramfs-tool
> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
> | subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> | Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
> | run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/mkvmlinuz
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> | /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> | think-different:/home/william#
> `----
>
> Nevertheless, i extract the config file from it, and is being compiled
> it now. This config seems including way too much staffs, the compilation
> takes more than *two hours*...
>
> And, when rebooting the new kernel fails at:
>
> ,----
> | VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc4" on unknown block (0, 0)
> | Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> | Kernel panic, not syncing:
> | VFS: unable to moiunt root fs on unknown block (0, 0)
> `----
>
> Above these lines, i notice that the new kernel has tagged ATA hard disk
> as /dev/hda. So this seems to be the problem.
>
> While, my current partition table is:
>
> ,----[ sudo fdisk -l ]
> | /dev/hdc
> | # type name length base ( size ) system
> | /dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
> | /dev/hdc2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
> | /dev/hdc3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260544 @ 1664 (127.2M) Linux swap
> | /dev/hdc4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 12311320 @ 262208 ( 5.9G) Linux native
> | /dev/hdc5 Apple_HFS macimage 6291456 @ 12573528 ( 3.0G) HFS
> | /dev/hdc6 Apple_HFS macosx 7888816 @ 18864984 ( 3.8G) HFS
> | /dev/hdc7 Apple_HFS source 31851320 @ 26753800 ( 15.2G) HFS
> |
> | Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120
> | DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> |
> `----
This still seems like a mac. Please try :
dpkg-reconfigure mkvmlinuz, and chose yaboot.
> It's a bit weird that the ATA hard disk has been tagged as /dev/hdc
> since the first time installation of debian by cdrom. But later i always
> upgrade linux kernel by hand, and without much problem up to 2.6.15.
>
> To solve the kernel panic, i tried appending "root=" option on yaboot,
>
> ,----
> | vmlinux root=/dev/hda4
> `----
>
> But it still causes similar error. :(
>
> >> boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel:
> >>
> >> Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info
> >
> > This is a yaboot warning, saying it has trouble finding the elf header
> > from the kernel. My first guess is that either your kernel is not an elf
> > file, and something went horribly wrong, or more probably your
> > yaboot.conf points at the wrong file, and not at the actual kernel.
> > Maybe you have a dangling symlink or something ?
>
> They are all okay, AFAIK.
>
> ps. It's ibook G4 1G, 12.1' here.
Strange.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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