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Captain Dondo

2005-12-13, 5:48 pm

I recently installed debian sarge on a bare box.

I need to have framebuffers running, so I grabbed the latest kernel
(2.6.14), configured it, and installed it.

I get a kernel panic at pivot_root that it can't find dev/console.

OK, so I grab the latest debian testing 2.6.12 kernel, configure it, and
install it. Same thing.

I have udev installed, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to
get the correct initird made. I've installed yaird, but now when I try
to make-kpkg I get a whole slew of unresolved symbols in the freshly
built modules when make-kpkg tries to make initrd....

Could someone please clue me in? What do I need to do to go from 2.4.27
to 2.6??? And why is this happening on my work box where I am under
deadlines????? :-(

TIA.....
Neil Woods

2005-12-13, 8:46 pm

>>>>> Captain Dondo writes:

> I recently installed debian sarge on a bare box.
> I need to have framebuffers running, so I grabbed the latest kernel
> (2.6.14), configured it, and installed it.


> I get a kernel panic at pivot_root that it can't find dev/console.


> OK, so I grab the latest debian testing 2.6.12 kernel, configure it,
> and install it. Same thing.


> I have udev installed, but I can't for the life of me figure out how
> to get the correct initird made. I've installed yaird, but now when I
> try to make-kpkg I get a whole slew of unresolved symbols in the
> freshly built modules when make-kpkg tries to make initrd....


Udev apparently does not work with yaird. See
<http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions>.

> Could someone please clue me in? What do I need to do to go from
> 2.4.27 to 2.6??? And why is this happening on my work box where I am
> under deadlines????? :-(


That happens occasionally

> TIA.....


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Neil.
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