Re: How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?
On Monday, 12 December 2016 14:20:45 PYST Robert Latest wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this old hardkernel odroid-u2 chugging away as a slow but
> reliable mediaserver. It's a few years old and uses a Debian Wheezy I
> downloaded from Hardkernel's site.
>
> I now wanted to connect a two-bay USB/SATA adapter, but the odroid
> only sees one of the drives. Maybe it's something else, but probably
> it's just due to an old kernel / udev. So I dist-upgraded to jessy but
> got stuck halfway because the kernel is too old (3.0.57). Soon I found
> out that upgrading the kernel isn't as straightforward as on i386,
> first because of the (probably pretty simple) uboot loader, and
> secondly because there is a large variety of ARM SoC flavors, each of
> which requires its own kernel.
>
> So.... any tips? Am I even on the right path that the "invisibility"
> of one of the SATA drives is due to the old kernel /udev?
>
> I'm willing to build a new kernel for this thing. Last time I did that
> was probably literally almost 20 years ago. Also I'll probably need
> some sort of serial adapter, as the only way I currently communicate
> with this thing is via ssh; i.e., if the kernel won't boot I won't
> know why.
>
> Any tips?
Yes, this question seems to be better placed at
debian-arm@lists.debian.org
and you might be better off with a minimal image of Jessie for odroid and then
do a fresh install IMHO. It's the faster path.
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