Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
I know some ut (mkinitrd for example) have to be updated to make a 2.6.X kernel working. Is kraxel work included in the apt repository? I wasn't able to find any 2.6 kernel using apt-cache search. I noticed apt proposed mkinitrd as an update anyway.
I'm still having a lot of errors trying to use a Linus 2.6.3 stock kernel (mainly a lot of can't find the module....).
I did run generate-modprobe.conf with no success, I haven't been able to obtain a 2.6.3 working kernel even if I started from a working 2.4.24 .config (make oldconfig) and then checked the config with a make menuconfig.
any advice?
Using "generate-modprobe.conf >/etc/modprobe.conf" didn't give me all I needed, so I used the one that came with SuSE 9.0 and modified a line or two, mainly to get the ov511 module loaded, the usblp module still doesn't load automatically. I also get lots of services failed messages during boot, all bogus. The kernel mailing list said this was all noise and is to be cleaned up. I'm using module-init-tools-3.0-pre10 which doesn't seem to be able to find any module I try manually to insert using modprobe or insmod, I may downgrade to 0.9.10 and see if that fixes the problem, strace shows it doesn't even try to access /lib/modules. Other than that, I'm running 2.6.3-mm2 successfully, the earlier 2.6 stuff also worked well. I only have one issue with Cisco vpnclient (I understand one guy has contacted Cisco) that's stopping me from moving to 2.6 on the laptop. I've found that just "mkdir /sys" is sufficient, if I try to mount it via /etc/fstab, it says it's already mounted, all the devices are there. I also upgraded hotplug from kernel.org. In order to get a VT console you need in your .config --- CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y BTW, I've not tried the kraxel stuff, only kernel.org. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.