-----Original Message----- From: Audioslave - 7M3 - Live [mailto:creed7m3live@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Mon, June 02, 2003 1:04 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: new beta?
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 04:49, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote:
I saw a 2.5.44 kernel RPM, and I installed it and my
system never booted
again. *sob* actually, all I had to do was make the boot
partition
again and shove the 2.4.18 back in...
Where did you come across the RPM for the 2.5.44 kernel? I might be interested in trying to see how that many revs back, it worked.
1. make defconfig 2. make xconfig
These I knew about.
3. make rpm
This sounds great! Will it tell you all of the needed dependacies?
You may need to modify the makefile to use rpmbuild command instead of rpm.
I was impressed with the automation for the make rpm. It made it to the below step, before it errored. I needed to add my sound to the compiled kernel. So the try was useful. It built the modified kernel.
I was surprised that it compiled the kernel and modules. I fiogured that it would have to be done also.
Anyway, I ran make mrproper
make defconfig
ran xconfig, adjusted for the MMX processor, loaded my sound card and ethernet to the kernel.
Then ran make rpm. It failed with the below message.
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /var/tmp/kernel-2.5.70-root/boot/vmlinuz-2.5.70
+ cp System.map /var/tmp/kernel-2.5.70-root/boot/System.map-2.5.70
+ cp .config /var/tmp/kernel-2.5.70-root/boot/config-2.5.70
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
Processing files: kernel-2.5.70-1
Provides: kernel-2.5.70 kernel-drm
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHave
Prefix) <= 4.0-1
Processing files: kernel-debuginfo-2.5.70-1
error: Could not open %files file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.5.70/debugfiles
.list: No such file or directory
RPM build errors:
Could not open %files file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.5.70/debugfiles.li
st: No such file or directory
make: *** [rpm] Error 1
In short. It was a learning experience to see the errors with the debug.
Thanks for the informatiion about the debub and the rpmbuild.
I have the other kernels installed below.
kernel-2.4.20-13.9 kernel-2.4.20-13.9.1 kernel-2.4.20-20.1.2005.nptl
About my kernel panic. I assume that goofed up and did something wrong with the boot loader. I have the below.
title 2.5.70 Linux (2.5.70) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.5.70 ro root=/dev/hda1
I am assumming that I should have used root=/dev/hda2 - I got confused with root (hd0,0) and put root=/dev/hda1 (boot partition)
I'll upgrade the grub loader. Check the date and name of the image and modules. Then reboot. The other egrub entries looked correct. I hope it boots.
I hope the new beta tries some computer specific tayloring. (automated). It would be great for the kernel and base to be taylored and loaded. Then have the other programs built to work for the specified archetecture.
Jim
