Re: Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread mess-mate
Gary L. Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch | installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was | installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine. The

Re: Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 6/11/07, Gary L. Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine.

Installing new kernel on dual boot grub system

2007-06-11 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25 that comes with windows XP installed. I used the newest Etch installer to load Debian onto the 2nd harddrive. This worked reasonably well. Grep was installed in the /MBR of the first (XP) disk. All this worked fine. Then I decided that I wanted to customize the kern

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:20:27AM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Loke Berne wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:13 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this > > > > kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Teunissen
On Mon, June 12, 2006 16:20, Sam Rosenfeld said: > > > >> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Loke Berne wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:13 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: >> > > I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this >> > > kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-12 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Loke Berne wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:13 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > > I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this > > > kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is > > > there any danger of wiping out p

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > >I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this > >kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is > >there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 11-jun-2006, at 20:19, Joris Huizer wrote: Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not a simpl

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Joris Huizer wrote: > I don't know what needs to change when using GRUB. Usually nothing. GRUB is automatically updated via script by default. Sam, you should also install "udev" package along with 2.6 kernel. Also choose a kernel optimized for your system - for example "kernel-image-k7" (or "li

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not a simple apt-get install, is there a suitable HOWTO? It's

installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not a simple apt-get install, is there a suitable HOWTO? Thanks. sam -- To UNSUBSC

Re: installing new kernel packages

2004-01-09 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I usually boot into my backup image, dpkg -r the kernel-package, and then dpkg-i the new kernel-package. This for the same version. For different version of the kernel (where the /lib/modules directory is not shared), I just skip the first and second

Re: installing new kernel packages

2004-01-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:24:07PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I'm curious what are other peoples' practices when installing a new > kernel package for a kernel version already installed (and the one you > are likely already booted to). The new package may be for the same > kernel version but for

installing new kernel packages

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Yeatman
I'm curious what are other peoples' practices when installing a new kernel package for a kernel version already installed (and the one you are likely already booted to). The new package may be for the same kernel version but for a different release(?) of that version as with the newly released pac

depmod trouble when installing new kernel

2003-12-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I'm installing a new 2.4.23 kernel on my main server (that I compiled some time ago), using Marcello's tree, but the same config I used for the Debian 2.4.22 kernel previously. The kernel was compiled on my workstation (with make-kpkg) and then uploaded to the server. When I try to in

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:50:33 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doesn't need it unless he's not on x86 but it looks like > the 2.4.x doesn't use it either. Most of my systems are 2.2.x > and 2.2.x requires it. > > I've always needed bin86 to compile. I just recompiled again to be

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread nate
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:00:50 -0800 (PST) > "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> stuff for building the kernel, since your on x86 I use bin86, make, gcc, > > He doesn't need bin86 -- that's the 16-bit assembler. > > apt-getting gcc, kernel-package, libncurses5-dev, and > kernel-source-$KVERSION

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:00:50 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > stuff for building the kernel, since your on x86 I use bin86, make, > gcc, He doesn't need bin86 -- that's the 16-bit assembler. apt-getting gcc, kernel-package, libncurses5-dev, and kernel-source-$KVERSION will get all

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:25:05 +0100 Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > boot=/dev/hda2 > > > install=/boot.boot.b > [..] > > It's been a while since I've used lilo. I much prefer grub. > > But I wonder if the fourth line shouldn't read "boot=/boot/boot.b"? > > Absolutely not, 'boot

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread nate
Brian T said: > > I'm doing this because I want to add sound support for my Dell Latitude nm > 256 sound. First I wanted to recompile the 2.2.20 kernel. I tried > running "make-kpkg " prior but the error message is "command not found". > So, I tried to install this command via dselect but ther

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:54:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:25:37 -0500 > "Brian T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > My lilo.conf is: > > > > boot=/dev/hda2 > > install=/boot.boot.b [..] > It's been a while since I've used lilo. I much prefer grub.

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:25:37 -0500 "Brian T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I > tried to install this command via dselect but there was no item named > "make-kpkg". The package you need is kernel-package. make-kpkg is the command to use once the package is installed. Check out newbiedoc's compilin

Re: installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-03-17 um 15.25 schrieb Brian T: > Hi, > > I am currently using Linux Debian 3.0 and kernel 2.2.20-idepci i686. I > would like to use kernel 2.4.20. > > I'm doing this because I want to add sound support for my Dell Latitude nm > 256 sound. First I wanted to recompile the 2.2.20 k

installing new kernel

2003-03-17 Thread Brian T
Hi, I am currently using Linux Debian 3.0 and kernel 2.2.20-idepci i686. I would like to use kernel 2.4.20. I'm doing this because I want to add sound support for my Dell Latitude nm 256 sound. First I wanted to recompile the 2.2.20 kernel. I tried running "make-kpkg " prior but the error m

Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:46:06PM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > I think you forgot to use the "lilo" command to update activate your > changes.. That's why it would be nicer to user grub (instead of lilo). You need to install it once. When you have a new kernel to boot to, you only need to defi

installing new kernel-image (solved)

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
Hi again, at the end it was not the symlinks but something a bit (more) silly. The entry initrd=/initrd.img was there but..under the older kernel. So I just added the line to the new one. Anyway, thanks everybody for their answers. cheers rodrigo P.D. I do not know (yet) whether or not t

Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread David Ellis
I think you forgot to use the "lilo" command to update activate your changes.. - David > you are right, my apologies > > the computer is a novatech laptop P4 processor, woody installed with > kernel 2.2.20 (trying to update to 2.4.18-686), > > I have a SiS7012 sound card, SiS900 ethernet card,

Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
you are right, my apologies the computer is a novatech laptop P4 processor, woody installed with kernel 2.2.20 (trying to update to 2.4.18-686), I have a SiS7012 sound card, SiS900 ethernet card, etc; the important thing (in my view) is that I've got a winmodem from (also) SiS. I downloaded the

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 > > I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: > > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only > > image=/vmlinuz

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar) wrote: hi everybody in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=kernel-2.2.20 r

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread ernst
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, nate wrote: > ylbaggar said: > > > what did i forget? > > > Is this a game? what can I win? I can't guess what you forgot because you > didn't include enough information about your hardware and software > configurations, and where the kernel paniced and what message it gave y

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread ernst
I'm not sure about the error, but you are also missing an entry in lilo under the kernel image, like: initrd=/initrd.img and probably a symlink in / like initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.your.image /ernst On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar) wrote: > > hi everybody > > in order to install a

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread nate
ylbaggar said: > what did i forget? Is this a game? what can I win? I can't guess what you forgot because you didn't include enough information about your hardware and software configurations, and where the kernel paniced and what message it gave you when it did panic. the list cannot read mind

installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar)
hi everybody in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=kernel-2.2.20 read-only I then executed lilo an

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Mark> I'm hoping that first make is something like "make config", "make Mark> menuconfig" or "make xconfig", so that you can adjust the kernel Mark> to the needs of your system, such as specific graphic, network or Mark> sound cards.

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 04:15, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> What is recommended with Debian, however, is to use make-kpkg after you > Mark> do the configuring and "make dep" - > > That was an excellent post, but as a very very mi

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"David" == David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> What is the difference between apt getting the kernel-image David> versus kernel-source? The former is the compiled kernel image, that can be used for booting the sytem, complete with modules and all, the latter is the siu

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> What is recommended with Debian, however, is to use make-kpkg after you Mark> do the configuring and "make dep" - That was an excellent post, but as a very very minor point -- make-kpkg runs make dep for you, so you don't hav

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"David" == David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> At what exact point of the process of compiling the new kernel David> would I do the make-kpkg. After everything else i've done? Please look at /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, man make-kpkg kernel-pkg.conf kerne

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> 2) will it add one more item inthe lilo for the new kernel and so that >> In can select the older kernel at boot time, in case I want? Bob> IIRC (I use grub), the older kernel gets labelled something like Bob> OldLinux, while the new

RE: Installing new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
what is happening gives the System Administrator much more power over the machine and its performance - much better than Microsoft's latest update so that they can take over your machine whenever they find it convenient to disable non-MS software. > > Dave > > -Original Message--

RE: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread David Pastern
for advice, much appreciated. Dave -Original Message- From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject: RE: Installing new kernel On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 02:01, David Pastern wrote: > Bob, > >

RE: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
e know if i'm doing things wrong. It does seem to have worked, > and corresponds to what I read in my books! > > Dave > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 9 September 2002 3:44 PM > To: [EM

RE: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread David Pastern
ge- From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 9 September 2002 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject: Re: Installing new kernel On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:54:10AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) >

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Donald R. Spoon
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) > > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image > with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 , > There are several kernel-image packages available that ha

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image > with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3 ,(As I have ext3 file > systems on my system, I think this is the correct kernel:|) > > 1) will i

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:54:10AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) > > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image > with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 , > > > 1) will it

Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image with the command: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 , 1) will it install the kernel in a saparate dir and not mess up the dir of older kernel?

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-10T03:30:07Z, "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel > image with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3 Did you really mean to move from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.2? I'd think you'd be bet

Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image with the command: apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3 ,(As I have ext3 file systems on my system, I think this is the correct kernel:|) 1) will it install the kernel in a saparate dir and not mess up the di

/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not found when installing new kernel?

2002-06-05 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi I have just done a clean install of potato and then upgraded to woody. I then tried to install a new kernel, during the install it says the following: Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc (2.4.18-5) ... /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not found /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not fou

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -0700, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > > > > May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to > > get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at > > www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
> > May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to > get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at > www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself > a set of kernel-source,kernel-image, and kernel-doc deb files (they

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling >myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian >although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. The easiest way is to use Adrian Bunk's set of packages for a 2.4.x kernel on a Debian 2.2r3 system. To run kern

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread david
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > hi.. > > How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling > myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian > although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. > > It seems that when I installed Progeny it gave me info a

installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
hi.. How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. It seems that when I installed Progeny it gave me info at one of the install screens saying Progeny comes with

Re: installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry for all the questions. They're part of what debian-user is for, so don't worry about it. :) >Is there any particular reason why I should installed the kernel >package rather than just doing it myself from the source from >www.kernel.org? Not especia

Re: installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I No other reason then that it makes life easy, no need to think of all the details and how they fit in the deb-way-of-life. Like where to put the kernel, update the mod

installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I should installed the kernel package rather than just doing it myself from the source from www.kernel.org? I want to rebuld the kernel so it should hopefully fix some stupid problems I am having due to the default kernel put in by t

Re: installing new kernel crashed X - Solved

1999-08-01 Thread Micha Feigin
Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-user > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM > Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help > > > > I tried to compile

Re: installing new kernel crashed X - Help

1999-08-01 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help > I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. > It compiled correctly, but when I tried to i

installing new kernel crashed X - Help

1999-08-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.) I rebooted with the old ke