Re: Building 2.6.x kernel
dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca(dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca) is reported to have said:
> Maybe my last message went astray.
>
> Has anyone had any success using a 2.6.[67] kernel built themselves?
>
Yes. Using the old fashoned way and using make-kpkg.
: uname -a
Linux buddy 2.6.7 #1 Sat Jul 17 21:15:34 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> I have now built a 2.6.6 and a 2.6.7 using make_kpkg. Both have
> apparently installed OK but panicked because they couldn't mount my
> root partition.
Looks like you don't have the option for the ext3 FS enabled.
>
> Said partition is an ext3 created during a stock sarge install. The
> original 2.4.25 and an installed 2.6.6-1.k7 kernel have no problems.
>
What does [grep -i ext3 /boot/config-2.6.7 report?
Mine shows
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set
> Also, I cannot create the modules for either 2.6.6 or 2.6.7, The
> attempt to make the modules eventally barfs telling me that there is a
> missing file /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7/include.linux/modversions.h
> and tells me to run make dep to creat it.
Do you have module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-1 installed? There have been
some changes in how the modules load. See the Documenation dir for
info on that.
>
> But running make dep simply results in a mesage saying that make dep
> is no longer necessary. WRONG.
Did you copy the .config file from /usr/src/linux-2.6.6 to the 2.6.7
dir and then do a make oldconfig? If not then do a make
[config|menuconfig|xconfig] in the 2.6.7 dir again, and check that you
enabled the ext3 fs.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
Wayne
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"It's not just a computer -- it's your ass."
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