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.
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