Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5
Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?
On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <rshakin@unixfreak.org> wrote:
Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the kernel
before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.
--Roman
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> kernel-package system.
>
> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at the
> old kernel it works fine.
>
> I'm obviously missing something but what?
>
> My / links are:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 28 2005
vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-
> 2.4.18-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u
>
> My silo.conf is:
> partition=1
> root=/dev/hda1
> timeout=100
> image=1/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> read-only
>
> My /boot is:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 848101 Sep 14 15:23 System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jul 26 2005 boot -> .
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jul 26 2005 etc -> .
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57
first.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 May 28 2005
old.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 Feb 2 2006 silo.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57
ultra.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1379575 May 28 2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
>
> and /etc/fstab is:
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.
>
> TIA
>
> John
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