Christian T. Steigies wrote:
Hi Erik,
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Erik C.J. Laan wrote:
Here's my experience with this kernel. First problem is the RTC is not
read correctly and the kernel Oops'es but continues. Problem with this
This happened on my Mac, too. I think one of the Mac gurus said, this is a
known "feature" for the Mac, so there is nothing I can do right now. But
just as with your box, my one continued to boot after that.
however is that the time is not correctly set and when fsck'ing the
root-filesystem the following messages appear:
Checking root filesystem...
fsck 1.39-WIP (10-Dec-2005)
/: Superblock last mount time is in the future.
Ugh, thats ugly. Probably you can not set the time manually before that?
Like with ntp or rdate, chrony, or some other tool?
No, there's no way I can think of except one I already tried: I made a
script that saves the current date&time to a file on system shutdown. On
boot it reads the date&time from this file, and when the current
date&time is before the time in the file it'll set the date&time in the
file. But because the root-filesystem contains the file, and it is
unmounted of mounted read-only _after_ saving the file (off course), the
timestamp of unmounting the / filesystem is always newer than the time
in the file.
Because ADB does not work I have no keyboerd. So I cannot login and I
cannot continue. So I needed to turn off power and turn it back on. I
solved this by checking the filesystem with an old and trusty 2.2.25
kernel and putting a /fastboot file in it. This bypasses the fsck on
boot. Doing this I can boot with this kernel up to a login prompt.
Because the NIC drivers for my network cards are not in the kernel
however, and because ADB does not work, I cannot do anything with it any
further. The log of this second fastboot is attached.
So is this any better/worse than the previous 2.6.15 kernel (-4 or -4.1)
that I uploaded?
Somebody needs to fix the ADB driver for your box.
And what is the missing NIC driver? Why did I not include it?
I think it's better. I feel that is ADB is fixed I can use this kernel
to do installation tests with d-i.
On the other hand if the NIC-drivers are fixed and compiled in or
available as modules I will start using this kernel and convert to ext3
so kernel-crashes don't have me waiting for fsck anymore ... ;-)
You did not include the NIC drivers (I have 2 NIC's in there) because at
least one (macsonic) does not compile. I think this is because of some
fixes Finn Thain has that have not been included or aren't yet
completely ready for inclusion. Back in March of 2005 I worked with him
to get both of my NIC's working in a 2.6.10 kernel he sent me at the
time, and we got them working. I don't know if alot has changed between
2.6.10 and 2.6.15 though, so I don't know if the fixes can be included
easily. I also don't know if Finn has them readily available as he has
moved and has not yet unpacked his Mac's IIRC.
Thanks for testing,
You're welcome.
HTH, Erik.
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