Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

[Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:20:36AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:20:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody
> 
> 
> --- Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:49:07AM -0800, saravanan
> > ganapathy wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody
> > > 
> >  [ snip ]
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have done recompile using kernel-source-2.4.18
> > and
> > > after reboot I got the following error
> > > 
> > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly
> > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
> > > kernel panic no init found , try passing init=
> > option
> > > to kernel
> > > 
> > > How to solve this problem? Please help me
> >  
> >   How did you compile your kernel? Did you use
> > make-kpkg? Did you use 
> > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new kernel?
> > 
> >   I'd suggest you to do the following:
> >  
> > 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
> > 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the
> > top dir of kernel source
> > (kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed)
> > 3. enable highmem. make menuconfig
> > 4. build kernel with make-kpkg: "make-kpkg --initrd
> > --revision='revision01'
> > kernel_image"
> > 5. install new deb
> > 6. reboot
> > 7. tell us about your luck :)
> > 
> >  Good luck!
> > 
> > --
> > Alexei Chetroi
> 
> I did the same way as u told , my steps are as follows
> 
> 1)apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
> 2)cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4   
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/.config
> 3)make menuconfig 
>     Select 'Load config from file' and choose .config
>     Enable 'smp', 'highmem4G' 
> 4)make dep
> 5)make-kpkg clean
> 6)make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-image
> 7)dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_debian.2.4_i386.deb
> 8) Reboot
> 
> Got kernel panic. Any mistakes I did?
  Did you indicated correct root device? I suppose you use lilo as boot
loader. Did kernel-image correctly updated lilo.conf and rerun lilo?
IIRC bf2.4 is compiled more statically, so try to install
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 and use its config file. If you try this, you
should use make-kpkg with --initrd and do you really need smp? I've
missed begging of the thread and don't know if your machine is smp
capable.

-- 
Alexei Chetroi