On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:52:07PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: | Well, it, together with Christoph's recipe for building the kernel, | is getting me steadily further. My only change to the configuration | has been to enable cramfs support, since cramfs is what the Debian | installer uses. | | It's detecting all the hardware correctly, as far as I can tell, but | I'm getting modprobe errors on boot, which I think is because the | initrd image just isn't working correctly. | | Initially, I thought this was to do with the following error which I | get as soon as the kernel tries to boot: | | Uncompressing Linux... alloc.c(line 132):allocator: AllocatePages(2, | 2, 3447, 0x4000000) failed (Not Found) | | gzip.c(line 436):gzip_ia64 : AllocatePages(3447, 0x4000000) for | kernel failed | | gzip.c(line 461):low_addr=0x4000000 new_addr=0x3010000000 | offset=0x3010000000 | done
This is just elilo spewing out some messages regarding relocating the kernel. I seem to recall either Jesse or I sent the elilo maintainer a patch to quiet these down since they are normal on Altix, and I think it's upstream already. | But I've tried netbooting with uncompressed kernel and initrd, and I | still end up with error messages which are coming from the kernel | trying to run /sbin/modprobe, and failing. | | Did I mess up creating my initrd? I loopback mounted the initrd from | the debian-installer, and copied its contents somewhere else. I | installed the new kernel's modules into the appropriate place, and | then used mkcramfs -b 16384 to create a new initrd from this | directory. Have I missed some crucial step that I should have made? I'm not very familiar with how the debian installer works, but I can try to play around with this today and see if I can get something that works. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
