Re: linux 2.4.21 on stable (was: Re: booting 2.4 kernel on old PC)
--- Marco Franzen <Marco.Franzen@bigfoot.com> escribió:
> Hi,
>
> > Would it be possible that the 2.4 kernel has dropped support for a
> > chipset that worked in in the 2.2 kernel? Should I file a bug report?
>
> Digging on kernel.org I found that this is likely a bug, which was
> fixed in the official kernel between 2.4.21pre1 and pre2. So I want
> to try 2.4.21 on my stable system.
>
> There is a debian image for 2.4.21 in testing, but not in stable. In
> addition, the kernel image in testing (but not the source) requires
> newer versions of modutils and initrd-tools than are available in
> stable.
>
2.4.21 runs just great on Woody.
> If I don't want to destabilise my stable system by mixing central
> packages, my best bet seems to be to fetch kernel-package and build
> the kernel-source-2.4.21 from testing on stable.
>
What I did was just use wget to download the .deb package for the latest 2.4.21
source. Then I just unpacked it and copied the .tar.gz into /usr/src. I used
make-kpkg to build it and viola. Kernel with Debian patches, and everything is
great.
> Would I use kernel-package from stable for that and would that be able
> to build the kernel from testing?
>
It will work fine from stable.
> Are modutils and initrd-tools likely to be an issue?
>
Nope.
> Thanks a lot,
> Marco
>
-Roberto
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