2009/12/5 William Immendorf <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Mykal Funk <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Ken that got the 2.6.30.9 kernel compiled. But I can't seem to >> boot it. It complains about not having an NFS mount then asks for a root >> floppy. If I hit a key, the kernel panics. I haven't figured out how to >> capture the output. >> >> I've googled around and am not finding anything. I've checked my Grub >> settings and they seem fine. I've double-checked the kernel config and >> it includes support for reiserfs, which is what the LFS 5 is on. > Try building the generic EIDE/PATA driver into the kernel. > > -- > William Immendorf > The ultimate in free computing. > Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. > > -------------- Yeah, I think William has probably hit the nail on the head here - you mentioned this was very old hardware.
One of the problems with 2.6 was its very long gestation (ISTR in excess of 70 versions of the 2.5 development series) and an enormous number of things changed so there might be a lot more to change once you have it booting. If that turns out to be the case, a description of how to get to 2.6 from 2.4 is in fact at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/kernel-2_6-migration.txt To use modules, I *think* the important thing was the 'moveold' which *should* allow both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels to run. As a precaution, copy all the programs from modutils before this, just in case they get overwritten. You should also check that your 2.4 kernel can boot to a useful state without loading any modules, just in case this goes wrong. If that works, you can use modules, then modprobe them as necessary until you find which are necessary. You can find module-init-tools-3.1 at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/ HTH, and good luck! ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
