OFF-TOPIC [was: Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4]

2007-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Apr 28 2007, at 12:30 +0800, William Xu wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Apr 28 2007, at 16:44 +0800, William Xu wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel above is a from the git repository, IINM. The config is attached. Your config works great ! Which means you have a bootable kernel now, right? If not you might want let us know

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread William
It means you have not installed the dependencies of the package. that it tries to call mkvmlinuz is a hint that you are not on powermac, or that you do something strange. ,[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:40:11 +0200, William wrote: And i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. Maybe it's time for a good hardware check. If you have a RAM module installed, try removing it and retry to install the kernel. There is a version of memtest for OSX, you could also

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread William Xu
Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel above is a from the git repository, IINM. The config is attached. Your config works great ! Except that my root fs is xfs, which makes me recompile it with xfs built-in. Also in yaboot.conf i changed hdc to hda. One little problem is that

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread William Xu
Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:40:11 +0200, William wrote: And i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. Maybe it's time for a good hardware check. If you have a RAM module installed, try removing it and retry to install the kernel. There is

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:50:06 +0200, William Xu wrote: This ibook is being well for more than three years now.. Apple's hardware seems nice. And it sure is, my iBook is now almost 4 years old too and it's still rock solid. But a faulty ram module can always happen ;) -- Best Regards, Jack

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Apr 27 2007, at 13:18 +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the quotes): time makeflags wolfgang pfeiffer Or you can have

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current

unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread William Xu
Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info Any thoughts on this?

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to The current debian kernels are etch's 2.6.18 and sid's 2.6.20. If i where you, i would

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu a écrit : Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). Hi, Maybe you can try to use the .config from the debian package for Etch ? Have a nice day,