on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:48:01AM -0800, Michael Montagne (michael@themontagnes.com) wrote: > I'm a little new at this. I want to upgrade my kernel from my > Libranet 2.4.21. > > I have a RAID controller (IDE) that appears as a SCSI device for some > reason. RAID controllers frequently do. The disks themselves are IDE/ATA. However the interface between the controller and the motherboard is SCSI. > So I need to use initrd to boot (correct?). At least that's > the way Libranet set it up for me. Either initrd or compiled-in support for your RAID card. > That means that I can't use a pristine kernel, I need the > cramfs/initrd patch. I got a kernel panic when trying the pristine > kernel. > > Since I can't find that anywhere perhaps I should use the Debian > kernel. I found that at backports.org. I guess it would be ok even > thought I'm not running a "stable" system. There is a source and a > .deb that looks already compiled. Since I want to save my settings > from before, I need to use the source (correct?). Are my assumptions > even close to reality? Herbert Xu (Debian kernel packages maintainer) has posted prerelease, unofficial, 2.4.23 debs to: http://master.debian.org/~herbert/sid/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/
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