upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29
I am running debian etch with - Linux thor 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 25 21:08:54 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux ; I am running this with Raid 5 and LVM.
I would like to update to 2.6.29 ; I found this article but i am little stuck, can you help ?
the article is:
http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_kernel2.6_compile/
The steps are:
1. apt-get install kernel-package
ncurses-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
2. wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2
3. tar xjf linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.29/
4.make menuconfig
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
5. apt-get update
apt-get install module-init-tools initrd-tools procps
6. cd ../
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.29_custom.1.0_i386.deb
7. cd /boot/
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29 2.6.29
8. I reboot and and choose the 2.6.29 option from grub.
But i am getting an error that it can not find or mount the filesystem.
If i reboot again and choose the older config, everything is back to normal and i am working with the old kernel.
Can anyone assist ???
thanks
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