Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I never messed with an initrd. My understanding is that the purpose of an initrd is to provide an image of a RAMdisk containing the modules the kernel needs to access the root file system; but if the hardware and

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :) It wasn't there when I did it. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have a dumbass question: why is yaird necessary at all? Or more accurately, why is an initrd necessary at all? Is it something about 2.6.x kernels? Back when I built 2.4.x kernels for my Athlon XP machine, I follwed

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It worked beautifully. A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed. http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ works now. I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is run by one

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: The package may have been renamed to linux-image-* instead of kernel-image-*. It certainly would have been. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
On 1/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has built for me, because I

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:09:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It worked beautifully. A day or two ago, the URL seems to have changed. http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ works now. I didn't know port 81 had ever worked on that machine. It is run by one of my friends. I now have

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread Robert Isaac
Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to backport. You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :)

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-23 Thread cmetzler
Robert Isaac wrote: Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to backport. You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :) OK, I have a dumbass question:

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:50:22PM +, Jo Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. I provided

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:55:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a URL like http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/ into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list And how does aptitude figure out which

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't accepted the new AMD-64 box the computer store has built for me, because I can't get it to run in 64-bit mode. I provided the sarge net-install CD's for both AMD-64 and the older 386 architectures. The netinstall for AMD64 went fine up to a point (except it

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: I use debian.csail.mit.edu. Sorry to sound terminally stupid, but I don't know how to translate a URL like http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/ into a deb line for /etc/apt/sources.list And how does