[opensuse] trying to get latest vanilla kernel from download installed and running on new machine.
I haven't had any luck yet doing this with a grub based machine. One machine I converted over to lilo -- and no problem, but then the suse default kernels wouldn't work right. Am I stuck with a choice between the two -- using the suse boot-loader grub and not being able to use standard kernels with no ram-disks, vs. booting from disk and but not being able to get suse to boot in a sane manner? I've gotten suse to come up under lilo (after some work) buit nothing was right -- disks were not mounted (but they were) no devices were mounted (though all disks were) root was initially read only... I just rebooted into a standard kernel and shelve it for the time. But I've another system that I'd really like to boot my own gen'ed kernel -- It's not that I can't have a ram disk for (whatever, but my builds usually don't need them -- I put the files I need to boot in my kernel.. Is there some 'gotcha'? Every time my kernel comes up it complains about not being able to find the console device -- had the same problem on the other system I converted to lilo -- and the problem went away -- so it's obviously something that grub needs to be told to pass to my kernel, I just am not sure what it is wanting... Thanks... _inda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Linda Walsh wrote:
I haven't had any luck yet doing this with a grub based machine. [..] Is there some 'gotcha'? Every time my kernel comes up it complains about not being able to find the console device -- had the same problem on the other system I converted to lilo -- and the problem went away
So, and now, are we supposed to magically derive and/or see the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst, /boot/grub/device.map, /etc/grub.conf and the output of 'df -h'? Without at least _some_ info from those, namely the stuff concerning "your" kernel, no one can even start to guess what goes wrong. You might want to move to discworld. There, magic and precognition and stuff like that does work. Or so pterry tells us. -dnh -- Q: "Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour. Is this what gods would actually be like?" A: "If we're lucky." -- Iain M. Banks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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David Haller
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Linda Walsh