Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-21 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/21/2011 11:18 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeffrey B. Greenj...@kikisoso.org [2011-02-18 13:53]: # /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf # replace most with dep MODULES=dep Anyone out there know of any pitfalls in this approach?? I.e. are all the crucial modules included in the initrd?

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-21 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/21/2011 11:22 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeffrey B. Greenj...@kikisoso.org [2011-02-18 11:22]: One of my slugs is still in the process of upgrading but I noticed that during the setting up of the 2.6.32-5 kernel that the flashing failed due to (output message): I believe some other

flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi everyone, One of my slugs is still in the process of upgrading but I noticed that during the setting up of the 2.6.32-5 kernel that the flashing failed due to (output message): Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx Running flash-kernel.

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] After unpacking the initrd in order to look where the space is going, I see: du -sm * 2 bin 1 conf 1 etc 1 init 14 lib 2 sbin 1 scripts And working my way down I get

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:48 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] [...snip...] Are all these drivers really necessary? By configureing the initramfs system, the size can be reduced, e.g. edit /etc/initramfs-tools

aptitude update/upgrade not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm posting to both lists since it seems to be relevant to both. The problem that I'm experiencing only seems to be happening on my armel (nslu2) systems. Squeeze upgrades to the i386 systems seem to be working properly. However, since aptitude is not (afaict) particularly an app

Re: aptitude update/upgrade not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/09/2011 08:33 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: [...snip...] Anyway, in a nutshell, I'm upgrading from a reprepro local repository that is currently up to date with the debian repositories. [...snip...] The reprepro Package list(s) seem to be the problem. Checking out the /v/l/dpkg/available

Re: Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-10-26 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 07/07/2010 01:36 PM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Wookey writes: +++ Jeffrey B. Green [2010-07-07 10:00 -0400]: I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration

Error while building EABI/oldABI compatible arm kernel

2010-09-30 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, In another exploration of migration avenues for us slug owners who still haven't moved to armel, I was attempting the debootstrap method suggested in: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto#BuildingEABIreadyKernel when I hit an error while building the kernel. It is: ... previous lines

Re: Error while building EABI/oldABI compatible arm kernel

2010-09-30 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 09/30/2010 10:09 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: In examining the type mentioned above, I see that it is defined as 6 bytes (actually 5 but I assume it aligns on a 2-byte boundary). So, the question is: how is the compiler (or linker) seeing the structure as having 8 byte entries? I'm

Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-07-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration procedure that I have discovered so far is the one on the ArmEabiHowto, e.g. the section Migrating arm installation

Re: Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-07-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Wookey writes: +++ Jeffrey B. Green [2010-07-07 10:00 -0400]: I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration procedure that I have discovered so far is the one