Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:24:51 -0400 From: Celejar To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels Message-Id: <20090831212451.bc3e3572.cele...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 31 Au

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread mertress
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 04:50:45 Arthur Barlow wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Arthur Barlow > Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM > Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels > To: debian-u...@debian.org > > > I'm been using Debi

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Arthur Barlow wrote: >No filesystem could mount root, tried: >Kenel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on >unknown-block(0,0) > >My grub menu.lst looks like this: > >titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30 >root(hd0,0) >kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:45 -0700 Arthur Barlow wrote: ... > I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my > practice to build new kernel with the "kernel-package" software that is part > of Debian's toolkit. I"m noticed over the last few months that all kernels > I try

Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Arthur Barlow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel with the "

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-24 Thread Kit Peters
I have solved my problem.  I installed fakeroot, then modified ~/.kernel-pkg.conf to use it (1).  Kernel compiles successfully, and .debs are generated in the parent directory ("~/src" in my case.)  I installed the linux-image .deb on the target machine successfully as well. (1) I added a line: "ro

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
On (22/06/06 21:07), Kit Peters wrote: > On 6/22/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root command > >for compiling. > Hm. I've never used fakeroot for anything. How would I compile a kernel in > fakeroot? aptitude install fakeroo

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
On 6/22/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have configured the kernel via menuconfig.  Kernel sources are at> $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/.  I execute 'CC=gcc-4.1 make-kpkg --pgpsign> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> --rootcmd sudo --revision 1.0 --append-to-version "-pt5500" buildpackage'.It is oft r

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
On (22/06/06 20:42), Kit Peters wrote: > I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at > kernel.org. > As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the > kernel version to reflect that fact. Normally, I would do this from within > $KERNEL_SOURCE_DIR/.co

Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at kernel.org.  As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the kernel version to reflect that fact.  Normally, I would do this from within $KERNEL_SOURCE_DIR/.config, but as I'm trying to keep this machine as