Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: > On 16.08.2010 13:22, Theo Veenker wrote: >> Theo Veenker wrote: >>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>> Theo Veenker wrote: >>>>> Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: >>>>>> On 20.07.2010 09:43, Theo Veenker wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I want to upgrade all our PC's from Ubuntu hardy to lucid and in >>>>>>> the process >>>>>>> I'm also going from kernel 2.6.29.5 with Xenomai 2.4.8 to kernel >>>>>>> 2.6.32.11 >>>>>>> with Xenomai 2.5.3. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I first built and tested the 2.6.32.11 kernel with 2.5.3 on my >>>>>>> hardy system >>>>>>> and all went fine. But the problem is it just doesn't run on the >>>>>>> lucid distro. >>>>>>> However the vanilla kernel runs fine. I also tried with a config >>>>>>> based on the >>>>>>> ubuntu lucid config, with relevant modules compiled in (I don't >>>>>>> use initrd). >>>>>>> >>>>>> Are you sure it's not initrd related ? >>>>>> >>>>>> After installing the kernel with dpkg --install i had to run >>>>>> '# update-initramfs -c -k all' and '# update-grub' manually. >>>>>> This is not necessary on debian lenny/squeeze and worked >>>>>> (if I remember correctly) with ubuntu karmic too. >>>>>> Check in your grub config if there is a initrd entry. >>>>> Unfortunately this doesn't make a difference. Created initrd for >>>>> regular and >>>>> kernel with xenomai; grub config OK. But still the regular kernel >>>>> works and >>>>> the other one gives me just a black screen. >>>> Have you tried removing "quiet" from the kernel command line? >>> Yes I always do. It somehow hangs before outputting anything. In the >>> meantime >>> I have recompiled again with BLK_DEV_INITRD set and running >>> update-initramfs etc >>> as Stefan suggested. No effect. When I install this kernel on an >>> Ubuntu hardy >>> system it works as expected; on Ubuntu lucid it does not. Could it be >>> due to >>> this plymouth crap? >> (back from holliday) I really like to get my kernel working. I just >> compiled >> a kernel 2.6.32.11 with lots of stuff (sound etc) disabled. The >> regular kernel >> works fine, with adeos-ipipe-2.6.32.11-x86-2.6-03.patch patch applied >> it does >> not work for Ubuntu 10.04 distro (blank screen) but *does work* for >> Ubuntu 8.04. >> What could be the cause of this weird problem? It must be something >> very early >> in the boot process that's different between the distro versions that >> makes the >> kernel work in one environment and not in the other. > > Have you tried multiple times to boot this kernel? On a debian squeeze > box i had > the problem with 2.6.32.11 and 2.5.3 that the kernel wanted to start > only once of 3-5 tries. > Screen stayed just blank (without quiet) just after booting. Looked like > a early timing > problem. I have upgraded this box to 2.6.32.15 and 2.5.4 and the problem > seems gone.
Probably the same issue as: https://mail.gna.org/public/adeos-main/2010-05/msg00003.html Fixed in: http://git.denx.de/?p=ipipe-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ddff0f3234fafeac852d1630dbe842d0726db29 -- Gilles. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
