Bug#310801: Successful: mipsel: Cobalt: Woody->Sarge upgrade
In message <20050527104022.GA27387@yellowpig.yi.org>, allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr writes:
>Thanks again for your report, report from upgrade on less mainstream
>architectures are very valuable to us.
FWIW, I've successfully upgraded my Cobalt RAQ2 (mipsel) from Woody to
Sarge by updating to the Sarge apt sources, apt-get update, apt-get
install aptitude, aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade.
Fortunately because I'd already built a custom kernel > 2.4.22, I was
spared much of the pain that might otherwise go with that type of
upgrade (ie, Sarge aptitude needs new libc6, which needs new kernel).
The only other issue I've noted is that Sarge has a
/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs, which does:
domount tmpfs shmfs /dev/shm $tmpfs_opt
that doesn't work with my kernel, presumably because tmpfs/shmfs was one
of many things I sacrificed to ensure that I could actually fit my
kernel into the space the Cobalt firmware will boot directly.
This causes a number of messages like this:
-=- cut here -=-
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
-=- cut here -=-
on the console during a reboot, but otherwise seems to be okay for the
limited range of software I run on my cobalt (it's a test machine).
It may be worth mentioning the requirement for tmpfs/shmfs to be compiled
into the kernel in the release notes.
I haven't yet tried to install the Debian packaged kernel, largely
because I'm dubious about it actually fiting in the space the Cobalt
firmware will boot. (I'm aware there is an alternative two stage boot
loader -- colo -- which seems to be packaged for Debian, but I haven't
tried it, and it doesn't seem to be mentione in the release notes.)
Ewen
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