Joseph,
There is already one there. I should have looked there before.
I've learnt a lot in the last few weeks.
Thanks for all your help.
Peter
"Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17/05/2005 14:08:20
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Looks like a regression bug. You should file a bug report at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
-Joseph
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On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> I did all of that, although I used mkinitrd rather than
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg.
> I've had to rebuild the kernel several times, first to apply the patch
to
> stop the fans from running at full speed, and then to enable Fibre
Channel
> and LVM
> support, I'm getting quite comfortable with the process now. That all
> worked perfectly for 2.6.8.
>
> I can build a kernel for 2.6.10 which works too, but when I add support
for
> the Fibre Channel
> it just won't boot. It gets to the point in the boot process where it
would
> detect the Fibre Channel
> disks and just stops. The same thing happened when I tried 2.6.9.
>
> I seem to have solved my particular problem now however. I took the
2.6.8.1
> source from
> www.kernel.org and patched in the tree below fs/ as well as
> include/linux/fs.h into the YDL
> 2.6.8 and that built quite happily. The problem I had with NFS seems to
> have gone.
>
> There just seem to be something in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 that stops the kernel
> from finding
> the Fibre Channel disks.
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/05/2005
18:16:41
>
>
> To: Peter G Harper/Magnox/Berkeley/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
> Fax to:
> Subject: fusion-MPT
>
>
>
> When you rebuilt the kernel, what did you do to install the new kernel?
> maybe there's an issue there.
>
> When I rebuild a kernel, it has a new name, for example
>
> vmlinux-2.6.10-2
>
> Take a look at
>
> path-to-kernel-source/include/linux/version.h
>
> to determine the name of your new kernel.
>
> * install kernel and system map
>
> vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-2
> System.map -> /boot/System.map-2.6.10-2
>
> * install modules
>
> make modules_install
>
> * generate a new /boot/initrd file
>
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove 2.6.10-2
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.10-2
>
> * edit /etc/yaboot.conf
> Add an entry for the new kernel:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-2
> label=linux
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.10-2.img
> root=/dev/sdb4
> append="rhgb quiet"
>
> * install the yaboot boot loader to the bootstrap partition:
> RUN:
> /sbin/ybin -v [-v to see what it's doing]
>
> -Joseph
>
>
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>
>
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