On 18/06/11 06:25, Linda Walsh wrote:
Donn Washburn wrote:
Group;
1. Over the past 15 years I have downloaded and compiled about every kernel basic and git from www.kernel.org and gotten them to work. I have changed the CPU to match this one and the default name using make menuconfig. I have tried over and over recently with no luck and openSuSE. Using oldconfig and /proc/config.gz as .config and make menuconfig. Both work just fine but mkinitrd fails - even though the modules are built and installed in /lib/modules/. Both openSuSE supplied kernel source and kernel.org kernels fail and have even cause this system to need reloading from scratch.
2. I have gone through all gyrations looking for why at a login I get no hostname but (none). And Apache2 complains about (none) at boot time. The happened before and was fixed in 11.4 one of alpha/beta versions but it is again broken
I had similar problems when I upgraded, I think it was to the 11 series (as I also build my own kernel from kernel.org configed for my hw)...
It was when they switched to grub and putting everything on a RAMDISK to boot from and started thinking they could totally go with file-labels instead of /dev/sda3 -- including at boot....
I never was able to get it to work right with the suse framework, because, in order to give the illusion of booting by the 'name' of the partition, rather than using /dev/sda3, they basically have to boot a miniroot of sorts to read the labels, and that all has to be on the boot-ram disk. Once I switched back to lilo, (I use XFS BTW, for all my disks, including the boot disk -- have since maybe suse 7-8 timeframe).
I did run into a problem in some of the recent kernels with the boot code not fitting in the boot area, but a new version of lilo has solved that now as well.
I'm not saying it can't be done -- I needed my system working again ASAP, so I didn't have weeks to look at debugging the issue. It's frustrating too -- since if I don't use their grub setup, I can't get the suse kernels to load (suse hasn't kept up lilo and was actually claiming a bug in grub was the fault of xfs -- so they dropped support for xfs for a while...until some people vehemently pointed out the bug was in grub (modifying a live-mounted file system?! You've got to be kidding!!)....
Anyway, Would be nice if they had the resources to make everything play nice together, but it's a matter of them using the tools they are most familiar with and not having the cycles to do everything.
Doesn't mean I don't continue to put in my voice about problems, because a lilo boot of my kernel happens in 1/2-1/3 the time of a standard suse boot from grub.
The last kernel problems I had going back a few months was with XFS where modules were being zeroed out on boot sometimes, so I moved to ext4. Donn, can you show us some output, mkinitrd failing says absolutely zero about how it's failing. What filesystem are you using? The previous vanilla kernels all worked as does the current one built minutes ago. slipstream:/home/lancelot/ftp/may11 # uname -r 3.0.0-rc3-git7-smp slipstream:/home/lancelot/ftp/may11 # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 275.09.07 Wed Jun 8 14:16:46 PDT 2011 GCC version: gcc version 4.6.0 20110607 [gcc-4_6-branch revision 174741] (SUSE Linux) slipstream:/home/lancelot/ftp/may11 # # lsmod|grep vbox vboxnetadp 13382 0 vboxnetflt 28693 0 vboxdrv 238789 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt I also have all sorts of weird stuff attached and working - SDR transceiver (Software Defined Radio), Logic analyser, VNA (Virtual Network Analyser). # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xf7df8000 irq 16 1 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! 5.1 [SB0060] SB Live! 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at 0xb880, irq 20 2 [DG8SAQI2C ]: USB-Audio - DG8SAQ-I2C www.obdev.at DG8SAQ-I2C at usb-0000:00:13.2-3.3, high speed # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 Wireless Adapter Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 050d:0307 Belkin Components Bus 006 Device 002: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port Bus 001 Device 005: ID 16c0:0478 VOTI Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 005: ID 047d:2043 Kensington Bus 002 Device 006: ID 16c0:05dc VOTI shared ID for use with libusb Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. M5602 Video Camera Controller Bus 002 Device 012: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel Bus 002 Device 013: ID 068e:00f2 CH Products, Inc. Flight Sim Pedals Bus 002 Device 014: ID 068e:00ff CH Products, Inc. Flight Sim Yoke Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0925:3881 Lakeview Research # cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.1 CODENAME = Asparagus So here I am, fat dumb and happy with everything functioning 100%. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org