Re: Now lost boot dir
> > Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling
> in more.
> > However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and
> running lilo.
> > Funny--worked fine last week.
I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot.
> I am wondering whether to
> bite the bullet
> > and simply install a stock kernel. Since I need Nouveau,
> it would need
> > to be a more recent kernel, a 2.6.33,4 or 5. Which is recommended
> > (all are called experimental and many images are simply lacking)?
>
> The standard 2.6.32 kernel used by Squeeze (I currently use
> 2.6.32-5-686
> version 2.6.32-20) works fine, and includes the nouveau
> driver. The
> nouveau driver seems to work OK in my experience, as long as you don't
> need interlaced video modes.
OK. Does it work with sid xorg-video-nouveau or does it need the version from testing?
> > Heard tell of compatibility problems with various nouveau compiles
> > and its xorg drivers. This would, of course, use the initrd.
> > I stopped using initrd when the installations ran yaird and
> this never
> > worked.
>
> Debian has given up on yaird for now. Stock kernels use
> initramfs-tools, which seems to work fine.
>
> > I used to use the old mkinitrd and have an obselete conf
> > for it. Now, the update-initramfs serves this. Is
> this smart enough
> > to get me running with the newer SATA/PATA drivers (module policy
> > defaults to "most")?
>
> The 2.6.32-5-686 kernel uses the newer libata drivers.
>
> > Do I need to specify most everything like
> > in mkinitrd?
>
> MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy seems to
> work fine as long as you don't "cross build" your initial RAM
> file systems. I.e. don't build an initial RAM file system
> for a kernel which uses the old IDE drivers while running a kernel
> which uses the newer libata drivers, or vice versa.
I would run it from the rescue CD which uses the newer libata drivers.
>
> > (Yaird had a test mode which gave a usable list of what
> > to include.)
>
> If you use the -v switch on update-initramfs it will list the
> modules that it includes.
>
> > Can these images be used with lilo or are they already
> > too large?
>
> I don't have any personal experience with the amd64 images,
> but I can attest that the i386 ones work
> fine with lilo, especially if you use the large-memory option,
> and especially if you use MODULES=dep.
> I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but you might
> want to take a look at my kernel-building web page,
> http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm. It may have
> some information that you will find useful, even if you use
> a stock kernel, and especially if you use lilo.
I'll give it a look!
This new computer is a two-core intel so I assume it is 64 bit but that does not require me to use 64 bits, especially just to get the thing booting normally again.
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