Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

[Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@operamail.com>]

On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:10:02 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:46:13 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is important that you *not* use traditional device nomenclature,
>>> such as
>>> 
>>>   /dev/hda1
>>>   /dev/sda1
>> 
>> Why?
> 
> Two reasons.  First, whether an IDE hard disk shows up as /dev/hda,
> /dev/hdb, etc. or /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. depends on which drivers are
> being used.  For example, the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel and earlier ones use
> the traditional IDE drivers, with device names /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc.
> The 2.6.32-5-686 and later kernels use the libata SCSI emulation
> drivers, with device names /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.
> 
> Second, the devices are not necessarily discovered in the same order
> every time with newer kernels.  Let's say you have a system with one
> hard disk and one CD-ROM drive.  On one boot, your hard disk may be
> assigned device name /dev/sda and the CD-ROM drive may be assigned the
> device name /dev/sdb.  But on the next boot, it is possible that the
> CD-ROM drive may be assigned the device name /dev/sda and the hard disk
> may be assigned the device name /dev/sdb.  You can never be sure. By
> using UUIDs or LABELs, you will always get the same physical partition
> mounted as the root file system every time, regardless of what its
> device name happens to be in the current boot.  The same applies to
> non-root file sytems in /etc/fstab (i.e. /boot, /home, etc.)
> 
> --
>   .''`.     Stephen Powell
>  : :'  :
>  `. `'`
>    `-

Thank you all for your helpful advice and info.

I am giving up on squeeze because I get so many problems with building
a series 3 kernel. I tried to download a kernel image from wheezy, but
got problems when I tried to install the Debian package. I tried
downloading and installing the dependencies, but putting a wheezy
kernel onto a squeeze system did not work. So I have now downloaded
the first DVD iso for wheeze and I shall try to install a series
3 kernel for that release.

Again, thank you all for your help.
-- 
Sian Mountbatten