Hi, thanks for the fast reply and the detailed description. Please find my comments in the copy of your message below.
On 26.08.2004, you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest >> way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody, but >> would be interested in testing 2.4.x or even 2.6.x kernels on my Amiga. >> How can I get (load .deb archive?), unpack (use dselect or dpkg?) and >> install a new kernel with the option to easily switch back to my old >> kernel in case the new one does not work? > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga kernel-image-2.6.8-amiga > > This will put modules, config and system map in the right place. Unless > you are using lilo (amiga-lilo is not included in Debian AFAIK, it does > not work for me, if somebody else wants to package it, go ahead), you do > not want to install a new lilo.config, nor create a boot floppy. You have > to copy the kernel (/boot/vmlinuz-<version>-amiga) to you Amiga partition, > ie /Amiga/Debian/kernel. Then on reboot just use the new kernel-image > instead of the one that shipped with woody. For this I created several > boot scripts similar to the one that shipped with woody, each loading a > different kernel. Also I mapped these boot scripts on function keys in zsh > (great shell written by Martin Gierich) so I can blindly boot 2.2.25 by > pressing Amiga-ESC followed by F1, 2.4.25 with F2, 2.4.26 with F3, 2.4.27 > with F4, 2.6.8 with F5, ... my Amiga video card and scan doubler are still > mostly broken and it seems nobody want to donate one, but even then I only > have two monitors for 6 computers, one PS2 and a VCR, so not needing a > monitor is a plus. The description sounds good. One question that came to my mind - what can I do, if the new kernel does not boot, i.e. how can I return to my old kernel? Can I just boot the old one using amiboot and the old vmlinuz file on my Amiga partition (are the appropriate modules, config and system map still there)? Peter > >> I am mostly interested in a new frame buffer device driver. The clgenfb >> that comes with Woody (1.4?) seems to have some serious problems. > > Serious problems? It might still have debugging on, but other than that, I > haven't heard of problems? Anyway, you can always grab the source > (kernel-source-<version>), the m68k patch (kernel-patch-<version>-m68k), > and maye kernel-package and roll your own. If you want to know how, just > download the source for a kernel-image-<ver>-amiga and "debuild" the > package after editing your config. > > Christian >
