Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Solla
On Jun 7, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Alex Solla writes: Yes, the installer told me to check my bootloader documentation before trying to boot into the new kernel because it was initrd. I did that, and added the line initrd=/initrd.img to the relevant yaboot.conf entry. Di

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Alex Solla writes: > Yes, the installer told me to check my bootloader documentation > before trying to boot into the new kernel because it was initrd. I > did that, and added the line initrd=/initrd.img to the relevant > yaboot.conf entry. Did I forget to do something? Did you actually cr

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Solla
On Jun 7, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Alex Solla writes: I'm getting gnarly kernel panics with 2.6.6 during boot up. Self-compiled or Debian package? It's a pre-compiled Debian package (kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc) ..loadmodules: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Alex Solla writes: > I'm getting gnarly kernel panics with 2.6.6 during boot up. Self-compiled or Debian package? > ..loadmodules: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only file system > SCSI subsystem initialized > ..da: max request size: 128KB > ..da: 40011300 sectors (20485 MB) w/2048KB Cach

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Solla
On Jun 7, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: You need to set CONFIG_USB, CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD, and CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT in your .config file. If you choose to build them as modules (which I recommend), this will result in usbcore.ko, ohci-hcd.ko and usbhid.ko for a 2.6.6 kernel. Load the

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Alex Solla writes: > 2.6.5 is the most recent kernel source in the sarge distribution Not any more, kernel-source-2.6.6 entered sarge a while ago. > Perhaps you could help me set up usb support for my imac (or point me > towards some documentation). I tried several usb settings (including

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Alex Solla, on Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:44:39 -0700, > >On Jun 7, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Alex Solla writes: >> >>> I'm trying to configure and install kernel-source-2.6.5 on a Summer >>> 2001 iMac DV. >> >> Any reason for not using the prebuilt kernel-image

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Alex Solla
On Jun 7, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Alex Solla writes: I'm trying to configure and install kernel-source-2.6.5 on a Summer 2001 iMac DV. Any reason for not using the prebuilt kernel-image packages? Any reason for not using 2.6.6? None, really. (2.6.5 is the most rec

Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Alex Solla writes: > I'm trying to configure and install kernel-source-2.6.5 on a Summer > 2001 iMac DV. Any reason for not using the prebuilt kernel-image packages? Any reason for not using 2.6.6? > I'm trying to optimize for speed, so I'm trying to get rid of any > hardware drivers for h

Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

2004-06-06 Thread Alex Solla
Hi everybody, I'm trying to configure and install kernel-source-2.6.5 on a Summer 2001 iMac DV. I'm trying to optimize for speed, so I'm trying to get rid of any hardware drivers for hardware that isn't installed. This turned out to be trickier than I thought--I don't know exactly what hard