Am 14.02.2013 um 17:36 schrieb Tom Easterday:

> On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Tom,
>> 
>> Am 14.02.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Tom Easterday:
>> 
>>>> fetch and install the required packages
>>>> 
>>>> The instructions for installing the Xenomai kernel are at 
>>>> XenomaiKernelPackages .
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I must say I preferred what was there yesterday.  For one, the instructions 
>>> were MUCH more clear.  And 2 they worked, unlike these.  I tried to install 
>>> this a system today.   Networking is broken and I have a bizarre pattern of 
>>> dots across the top of the machine.  It also takes a VERY long time to 
>>> shutdown (1 minute or so) for some reason.  It spews several pages of 
>>> FFFFFFF's across the screen at boot, not sure what that one is about but 
>>> not a biggie....
>> 
>> I have verified the instructions beforehand by installing this kernel for 
>> lucid, precise and squeeze before John sent the announcement.
>> 
>> The suggestion that downloading this kernel package somehow wipes your grub 
>> configuration is a bit hard to follow; in any case you should have a default 
>> kernel which you can select via grub.
> 
> I didn't say it wipes my grub configuration, I am just saying that the grub 
> selection menu no longer comes up during boot.  I don't know how to get it 
> back.  This was a fresh install on a new (different) disk so nothing was 
> there before.
> 
>> The log shows one attempt where the downloader obviously forgot the step 
>> 'CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs); echo $CODENAME' as per instructions. Please 
>> let me know the IP address (range) you connected from to verify if this 
>> could have been the cause.
> 
> I definitely did CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs); echo $CODENAME and it returned 
> "precise".
> 
> My address should be 107.5.93.X.

I had no connects from this range:

mah2:/var/log/apache2# grep 107.5.93  *
mah2:/var/log/apache2# 

Could it be you pulled from John's repo 
(http://distro.zultron.com/zultron/cadcam/debian) ?


> 
>> 
>>> The networking issue could be related to this:  RealTek r8168 NIC chipset 
>>> problems
>> 
>> Please boot into the non-Xenomai kernel (I do not know what you are running 
>> as you did not tell), and install the r1868 kmod as described on the wiki 
>> page. Then boot into the Xenomai kernel. Since I have the very same problem 
>> with an r8168, I can tell that this procedure works.
> 
> Is there an easy way to either force the grub menu to come up at boot, or 
> tell it to use a different kernel on next boot....?

pressing the left shift key during boot works for me

search for 'shift' in the first google hit for 'grub menu display' 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2


- Michael

> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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