On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:15:38PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 03:16 pm: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:35:55AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > > > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > > > 2.6.14-rc5-powerpc) while running a kernel of version > > > 2.4.27-powerpc, but > > > > Why in hell are you running a 2.4.27 kernel ? This was not the default > > sarge kernel and i expicitly mentioned it should not be used, having > > been mostly abandoned upstream over two years ago. > > As I said in my other email, I couldn't install using the sarge netboot > installer (missing yaboot binary and config, and the woody yaboot > wouldn't load the initrd.gz that is available for netbooting). So, I > installed woody, and dist-upgraded to testing.
You did file an installation report though, right ? > I've tried installing other 2.6 kernels, but (as I said before), they all > kernel panic when loading the ide driver for the chipset on the machine > (blue&white G3). Ah, yes, i remember that. Did you file a bug report against the kernel for that ? > If I wanted to be running a 2.4 kernel, why do you think I'd be trying to > upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, anyways? ;) :) > > > you have no suitable ramdisk generation tool installed among > > > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. > > > This will break the installation, unless a > > > suitable ramdisk generation tool is also being installed right > > > now. > > > > Exact, yaird cannot build initrd's running on a 2.4.27 kernel, since > > it need /sys, which is only present in 2.6 kernels. > > > > So, you have two ways, either use initramfs-tools instead of yaird > > (altough mostly untested on powerpc, may work though), or do an > > intermediary upgrade to the sarge 2.6.8 kernels or the etch 2.6.12 > > ones, reboot and then install, not the 2.6.14-rc5 kernels, but the > > 2.6.14-1 currently in sid. > > As I said before, 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 debian kernels panic on boot when > they're loading the driver for my IDE controller (cmd646 chipset on a > blue&white G3). I was trying to install 2.6.14 to see if that fixes the > problem I was having, but it seems to have its own problems in being > installed from a system running a 2.4.27 kernel. Just try out initramfs-tools, but it seems rather unlikely that this problem is fixed in 2.6.14, not sure though. Please file a bug report. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
