Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread mertress
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 04:50:45 Arthur Barlow wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:24:51 -0400 From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels Message-Id: 20090831212451.bc3e3572.cele...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon

Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Arthur Barlow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:45 -0700 Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel with the kernel-package software that is part of Debian's toolkit. Im noticed over the last few months that all

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In b9384ad40908311750l59cdeb42t783461317bd51...@mail.gmail.com, Arthur Barlow wrote: No filesystem could mount root, tried: Kenel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) My grub menu.lst looks like this: titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30 root

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-24 Thread Kit Peters
I have solved my problem. I installed fakeroot, then modified ~/.kernel-pkg.conf to use it (1). Kernel compiles successfully, and .debs are generated in the parent directory (~/src in my case.) I installed the linux-image .deb on the target machine successfully as well. (1) I added a line:

Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at kernel.org. As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the kernel version to reflect that fact. Normally, I would do this from within $KERNEL_SOURCE_DIR/.config, but as I'm trying to keep this machine as

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
On (22/06/06 20:42), Kit Peters wrote: I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at kernel.org. As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the kernel version to reflect that fact. Normally, I would do this from within

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
On 6/22/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have configured the kernel via menuconfig.Kernel sources are at $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/.I execute 'CC=gcc-4.1 make-kpkg --pgpsign [EMAIL PROTECTED] --rootcmd sudo --revision 1.0 --append-to-version -pt5500 buildpackage'.It is oft recommended

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread James Westby
On (22/06/06 21:07), Kit Peters wrote: On 6/22/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root command for compiling. Hm. I've never used fakeroot for anything. How would I compile a kernel in fakeroot? aptitude install fakeroot