On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:13:39AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote:
| --- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but I am having
| > lots of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using the
| > idepci disks (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from
| > the hard disk with no difficulty.
| >
| > The difficulty comes in booting a 2.4 kernel. I installed
| > kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 and kernel-image-2.4.18-386, I also
| > installed the 2.4.18-bf2.4 image from the woody installer, and I
| > also installed a kernel I compiled on another machine.
| >
| > The system has a VIA 8233 ide controller, and the
| > hard drive is
| > partitioned as :
| > hda1 /boot
| > hda5 /
| > hda6 swap
| > hda7 /var
| > I've built kernels before, and I've experienced a number of
| > similar errors, so I have some familiarity with what is going on,
| > but this time I'm stumped. What might be the problem here? My
| > only guess now is that 2.4 kernels don't like booting from
| > extended partitions, but the 2.2 kernel has no problems with it.
|
| <<SNIP>>
|
| As I recall, there were lots of things that needed to
| be upgraded to get 2.4.x to run on potato. Adrian Bunk
| had created a lot of special packages for this:
|
| http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
|
| Did you do this stuff?
No, I dist-upgraded to woody. I didn't install woody directly because
the installer floppies I had didn't have the NIC driver. I expect
that dist-upgrading to woody, and installing the woody kernel-image
packages from debian.org will take care of all the dependencies. That
hasn't been a problem with other (older) machines I've done this on.
-D
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