On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > Hi, > > seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest > way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody, but > would be interested in testing 2.4.x or even 2.6.x kernels on my Amiga. How > can I get (load .deb archive?), unpack (use dselect or dpkg?) and install a > new kernel with the option to easily switch back to my old kernel in case > the new one does not work?
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga kernel-image-2.6.8-amiga This will put modules, config and system map in the right place. Unless you are using lilo (amiga-lilo is not included in Debian AFAIK, it does not work for me, if somebody else wants to package it, go ahead), you do not want to install a new lilo.config, nor create a boot floppy. You have to copy the kernel (/boot/vmlinuz-<version>-amiga) to you Amiga partition, ie /Amiga/Debian/kernel. Then on reboot just use the new kernel-image instead of the one that shipped with woody. For this I created several boot scripts similar to the one that shipped with woody, each loading a different kernel. Also I mapped these boot scripts on function keys in zsh (great shell written by Martin Gierich) so I can blindly boot 2.2.25 by pressing Amiga-ESC followed by F1, 2.4.25 with F2, 2.4.26 with F3, 2.4.27 with F4, 2.6.8 with F5, ... my Amiga video card and scan doubler are still mostly broken and it seems nobody want to donate one, but even then I only have two monitors for 6 computers, one PS2 and a VCR, so not needing a monitor is a plus. > I am mostly interested in a new frame buffer device driver. The clgenfb that > comes with Woody (1.4?) seems to have some serious problems. Serious problems? It might still have debugging on, but other than that, I haven't heard of problems? Anyway, you can always grab the source (kernel-source-<version>), the m68k patch (kernel-patch-<version>-m68k), and maye kernel-package and roll your own. If you want to know how, just download the source for a kernel-image-<ver>-amiga and "debuild" the package after editing your config. Christian
