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Todd A. Jacobs
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 Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: kernel? 2.4.x vs 2.6.x
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 03:57:39AM -0600, Colin J. Ingram wrote:
| Quote: | that bittorrent releaves stress on servers, but the download was much
slower on my connection. This must be improved for bittorrent to
become a viable option.
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This is probably a problem with your client or Internet pipe. Cruise on
over to the bittorrent FAQs, but I'd suspect that you aren't sharing
enough during your bittorent downloads (are you behind a firewall?), and
the protocol essentially punishes leechers.
Under almost no circumstances is bittorrent *slower* than a direct
download from the same source.
| Quote: | Should I upgrade to a 2.6.x kernel? In other terms, its pool time! Do
you use 2.4.x or 2.6.x with sarge and why?
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If you're running Sarge anyway, you're probably not running a system
where you're afraid of new features and possible (though unlikely)
problems, so why not stick with the latest 2.6 kernels?
Stick with 2.4 if you want stability and upgrades only for serious
issues, and 2.6 if you want the leading edge.
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vic pope
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Re: APRS under Linux
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HELP.
I am trying to setup xastir in debian, have downloaded xastir up
and running. But i seem to have trouble getting internet server going.
Does one have to have the pass-code for it to work, if so how do you go
about it. Also i have put in www.aprs.org When i start the progame the
yellow bar is there, but it comes back ERROR OPENING INTERFACE 2 HARD
FAIL. Also i would like to say that i am only a beginner at linux but i
will keep going. Thanks for any help. Vic Pope g7vac
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Todd A. Jacobs
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Procmail
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:52:31PM +0530, Deepak, R. wrote:
| Quote: | ~/.forward: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
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Try "|exec /usr/bin/procmail -p" instead so that procmail gets the right
environment variables passed in. You may also need to set DEFAULT or
ORGMAIL if procmail isn't inheriting them properly for some reason.
For any other help, you really need to post the relevent sections of
your procmail logfile.
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Clive Menzies
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Old post: Writing to SMB share fails from some applications
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On (02/02/05 15:57), Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:30:13 +0000, Clive Menzies
clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
On (02/02/05 11:40), Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
Hi Clive,
I've found your post on the debian list, but I found no follow up to
it. I would like to know if you have more info about the problem. It
seems that we've ran in the same problem here with Ubuntu (a
Debian-based distro) & Open Office. Any information is valuable.
I found your original message at this location:
http://groups.google.com.br/groups?selm=3arlv-4Sm-13%40gated-at.bofh.it&output=gplain
Hi Carlos
Ah! That was a while ago and I gave up, reverting to nfs. Then about 3
weeks ago I took delivery of a new laptop and thought I'd try again.
Following spotting something about smbfs being deprecated in favour of
cifs, I installed the cifs kernel module (using modconf in debian) and mounted
the shares as cifs instead of smbfs. I did this last week and it's been
working fine since then.
Hi, I found some references about CIFS also later (after I sent that
message to you). I found the lack of documentation on CIFS absolutely
confusing. Almost all existing references talk about CIFS, the
"Microsoft Standard", and a few precious talk about moubt.cifs, the
Linux CIFS client. I still would greatly appreciate if you could send
to me more info, or pointers about it.
I also found intriguing another thing: with so many documents about
Samba as a server for a Windows environment, there's little literature
on the use of a Linux workstation with Samba. That would be
understandable if NFS were a little bit better, but considering how
bad and outdated NFS is... I thought more people would have tried a
client CIFS/SMB for Linux.
An example: please check your 'man mount', and see if cifs is
mentioned at all. I found that mount.cifs is included in my setup
(Ubuntu hoary, a debian based distro), but 'man mount' doesnt list it.
It also seem to be a little short on arguments, which is equally
weird. There's also little literature on the use of the mapping issues
in this scenario. I wish to solve it, but it`s being much harder than
I antecipated.
No cifs isn't mentioned in the man mount page |
Having wrestled with Samba for some time I recently bought the O'Reilly
book Chapter 5 is quite helpful:
http://it.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch05.html
and the unofficial samba howto:
http://www.math.temple.edu/computing/samba.html
Just substitute cifs for smbfs
my fstab looks like this:
# smbclient configuration
//server/share /smb/share cifs
//credentials=/home/user/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0
//0
//server/share2 /smb/share2 cifs
//credentials=/home/user/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0
//0
etc.
Regards
Clive
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Antti Tolamo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Old post: Writing to SMB share fails from some applications
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Clive Menzies wrote:
the enviroment and how one has configured it,
there are also problems with applications that
try to use it.
If somebody has been able to make Nautilus
work with with Samba and know why it
may not, I'd like to hear about it.
Antti
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Rogério Brito
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Joined: 01 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: USB 2.0 Drive Reliability/Stability?
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On Feb 02 2005, Joerg Johannes wrote:
| Quote: | Am Mittwoch, den 02.02.2005, 13:12 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito:
Well, I have an HD enclosure (Pyro Dual Link Drive Kit DLX-185) with a
regular IDE HD inside of it. The enclosure has two connectors: one is a USB
2.0 and the other is a Firewire port.
I'm waiting for the Western Digital WDXB<blah> 250 GB. Should be similar
to yours.
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Yes, except that I didn't have a 250GB drive to put in that enclosure. I'm
dealing with a Seagate Barracuda with 160GB. It's quite nice to have a fast
drive that is, at the same time, quiet.
| Quote: | Now that I have a vanilla Firewire card, I can use the same drive without
any problems. In fact, I'm using this drive with an HFS+ filesystem so that
I can easily share data between my Mac and Linux.
Does that work OK for you? I just ordered a Mac, too, and I'm still
undecided wether to format the HD with HFS+ or FAT32...
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Yes, it does. I used to use FAT32, but its limitations (not allowing
symbolic links and other usual things like permissions in standard Unix
filesystems) turned me to HFS+. It is still case insensitive, but, at
least, it is not as alien as FAT32 is... (That's not to mention the
partition size problems that FAT32 has).
If you're working with MacOS X, then there is another option of making the
external HD's filesystem ext2. There is a kernel extension for MacOS X
(i.e., the analogous of a module) for reading ext2 filesystems and this
project seems to be active in Sourceforge.
See <http://sf.net/projects/ext2fsx/>.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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Rogério Brito
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: ReiserFS bugchecks on external drive (was Re: USB 2.0 Drive Reliability/Stability?)
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On Feb 02 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:12 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
I had problems getting filesystem corruption when I used it with the USB
port (at the time, I didn't have a Firewire card), with the SCSI layer
saying that the media was removed from the device (something quite weird
indeed, as it was in the middle of an rsync and I obviously didn't mess
with it when I was doing such copies).
I've got an external USB2/Firewire enclosure with a 60GB drive.
When the drive was formatted reiserfs, it would always puke trying
to copy large amounts (10+GB) of data at the same time. This was
whether using tar or cp.
ext3 handles it fine, though.
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I haven't used reiserfs for a *looong* while. I was talking about ext3
here. Sure, not with kernel 2.6.10, but with an earlier kernel from the 2.6
series.
I see that usb-storage has had many improvements since then, though.
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Wathavy
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Posts: 7
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: USB mouse USB keyboard won't work after kernel build! Help.
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Thank you Kent.
The module related item, you mentioned,
should help me well.
Since I am beginner to Linux & RtLinux(<- see P.S.)
it is tough to specify which field
this specific trouble supposed to be posted.
And I actually posted to RtLinux mailing list as well.
But not yet replied.
Thank you for your suggestion and I will really
apprecite for you and all to have paid attentions
to this subject.
I will have a look into the module status.
and this 'module' topic is the key-topic to me.
It still does not display any concrete function
and makes me tough to make use of modules.
Sincerely
Wathavy.
P.S.
| Quote: | What is this "RTLinux" you keep referring to? I did
Sorry to have let you spare time. |
RtLinux, please reffer to
http://www.rtlinux.com/
http://www.fsmlabs.com/
for further information.
there is other version called RTLinux-Free, which
I am doing familialization.
------------------------quote--------------------
FSMLabs products are based on the ground-breaking RTCore
hard real-time operating system, which uses Linux or BSD
UNIX as an application server.
These components are designed to deliver dependable,
predictable, state-of-the-art performance, and to
interoperate with other standard components using standard
APIs. They are designed to not require endless
"configuration" or complex niche "tool-sets" that are
carryovers from the days of customized DSP-based
real-time. Extensively tested and debugged, RTLinuxPro and
RTCore products simplify development of real-time and
embedded systems.
| Quote: | Wathavy wrote:
Hi.
I installed RTlinux kernel and working fine as far
as
PS/2 mouse with PS/2 keyboard are connected.
USB keyboard and USB mouse are at working condition
when I start with old kernel at recovery boot run.
You probably need to insert the appropriate USB
modules. You might try
"modprobe usbcore" for starters. I'm not currently
running a USB
mouse/keyboard, so I can't look in my list of
running modules to provide
any better answer, but still, I think you're missing
USB support from
your system. Adding the correct modules should help.
What is this "RTLinux" you keep referring to? I did
a google, and it
appears to be another distro, in which case are you
running a mix of two
distros? an RTLinux kernel and a Debian-otherwise
system? Maybe this is
kosher, but you're likely to run into issues that
few of us who run pure
Debian will be familiar with. If we aren't able to
help you, perhaps
there's an RTLinux mailing list that might provide
you with better answers.
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Christopher Pharo Glćseru
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: IDE Disk Controllers: Natively supported / detecting them ....
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Wim De Smet,
| Quote: | Em by browsing the kernel code? That's a bit of a hard question
actually. But the kernel code is online at several places, these
drivers are all in the same dir and just looking at the comments at
the top of the file should probably tell you what it's for.
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Either that, or he could download and unpack the source and do a
make menuconfig
or similiar, which makes looking at the available drivers slightly
easier.
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Gene Heskett
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: net install , initrd, kernel 2.6.10 install woes
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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 23:43, J.F.Gratton wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
I'm kinda hoping someone came across the same problem and might be
able to help me out ...
I've installed a new system using the netinstall images (Debian-
Installer rc2.. works real good, congratulations to all
developpers).
It comes with kernel 2.6.8.1. Since previously I was using 2.6.10, I
installed everything, downloaded the kernel tarball and proceeded
from there tweaking this and that, just like I used to do before.
Now.... once the kernel installed, the computer starts
bootstrapping; it loads the kernel in memory, sees my IDE
controller, my hard drives and then BANG ...
VFS: Cannot open root device "34b" or unknown-block (3,75)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown- block (3,75).
At first I thought it was because ext3fs was loaded as a module so I
compiled it into the kernel; shouldn't matter anyway because it is a
module with Debian-Installer's kernel 2.6.8.1. To be safe I've put
it into the kernel as well as my IDE controller module.
Then I noticed that kervel 2.6.8.1 from debian-installer uses an
initial RAMDISK (initrd), which I don't use with 2.6.10.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 1- initrd are getting obsolete, and 2-
you use that if you know that some devices wouldn't be usable with
a "normal" boot sequence, otherwise (ie: say you're using some
filesystem for / and you need its module before getting on with the
rest of the boot sequence). For these two reasons I consider the
use of initrd unappropriate on my system.
So how do I get unstuck from this ? my system is actually unusable
as it is, except with 2.6.8.1 that came with Debian-Installer, and
I don't want to stay stuck with that kernel forever :)
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I chose to reinstall
my system with netinst/debian-installer because I thought I could
do that if less time, and now I've spent almost 16hrs on that :(
In attachment, if that can help, you'll find my kernel .config ,
both for 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10
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If you are not using an initrd, then you cannot use labels in
grub.conf (aka menu.lst), but must specify the '/' partition as
root=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number on the disk that is
the root of '/' This is on the same line that specifies the vmlinuz
file, and is supplied to this file as boot time arguments. You must
also build all the disk access drivers into the kernel, not as
modules.
Note that this is a seperate specification from the line above the
vmlinuz-version-etc and its arguments line. That line is usually
'root(hd0,0)' which indicates the /boot disk and partition on that
disk thats used for /boot, this is so that the menu.lst or grub.conf
can be found IF its not the one its actually reading. Since most
use /dev/hda1 for the /boot partition, then that line will always
read 0,0 for fist drive, first partition on that drive. If the /boot
is a dir on /, then I believe those two will match, but I'm not 100%
on that since I've never not used a /boot partition. If thats
incorrect, please, somebody correct me on that point.
| Quote: | Regards,
Jeff
PS: If any of the DD involved in the system's bootstrap reads this,
I'd like to know why you do use initrd ? If I'm wrong in assuming
that there's no real gain with it, I'd gladly stand corrected.
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Daniel L. Miller
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Troubleshooting NFS - was Replacing NFS with Samba
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Cameron Hutchison wrote:
| Quote: | Once upon a time Daniel L. Miller said...
Problem still occuring, found syslog entries of:
localhost kernel: nfs: server remoteserver not responding, still trying
I was having lots of trouble with NFS when it was being carried over a
wireless link (a wireless bridge between my upstairs and downstairs). I
was getting the same errors you're getting.
I fixed it by using NFS over tcp - it defaults to UDP. If you add the
"tcp" option to the mount options, it will use TCP. You may want to give
that a try.
Thanx for the suggestion - already using it. Not fixed yet . . . |
I can NOT figure out what the deal is here! I do see messages from time
to time from my network card - showing auto-negotiation messages to
100BaseT full duplex. I don't know why this would happen - unless some
thing is causing the link to fail and re-connect?
Daniel
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Dave Ewart
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #308
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On Wednesday, 02.02.2005 at 11:33 -0800, Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
| Quote: | I have multiple Cisco ATA 188 phone adapters behind a Debian Woody 2.4
kernel acting as a NAT to a single Internet IP address.
The phones all make outgoing calls just fine. The incoming calls cannot
get through.
Does anyone have an iptables NAT script that will allow the phones to
work both ways?
Here are my current entries:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s $MASQ_NET -o $EXT -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $EXTIP -p tcp --dport 16384 -j DNAT
--to-dest 10.10.0.12:16384
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $EXTIP -p udp --dport 16384 -j DNAT
--to-dest 10.10.0.12:16384
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -p udp -d 10.10.0.12 --dport 16384 -j
ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -p tcp -d 10.10.0.12 --dport 16384 -j
ACCEPT
where 16384 is the media port on the ATA188 (there is a set for each
ATA188)
the -FORWARD's don't seem to do anything
Can you tell us what $MASQ_NET and $EXT refer to? Which interface is
eth0? etc.
MASQ_NET is 10.10.0.0/24 - this is the internal NAT'd network
on eth1
$EXT - is the eth0
adapter that is using $EXT_IP on the public network
$INT - is eth1 the
internal 10.10.0.0/24 network
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The FORWARD rules are certainly necessary, assuming the default policy
for the FORWARD chain is DROP. I always specify the rules more closely,
e.g. '-A FORWARD -i eth0 -d 10.10.0.12' becomes '-A FORWARD -i eth0 -o
eth1 -d 10.10.0.12', but yours should work.
I am unfamiliar with the Cisco phone adapters you are using, but are you
certain that you have the port numbers correct? Also, do they use any
ports other than 16384? If so, you'll need an 'ESTABLISHED/RELATED'
rule to allow this other traffic back in through the firewall.
If that doesn't help, you probably need to show us your complete
firewall ruleset - also include the default policies for each chain,
e.g.
INPUT - DROP
OUTPUT - DROP
FORWARD - DROP
nat PREROUTING - ACCEPT
nat POSTROUTING - ACCEPT
nat OUTPUT - ACCEPT
etc.
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20100 p
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Posts: 1
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Debian packages similar to mathematica or mathlab ?
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Hi,
| Quote: | There are probably a few others I missed, but I believe that these are the major
options (will be happy to hear about any more good alternatives to these, I'm
trying to compile a list of various free solutions to mathematical work).
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Let's not forget Python and its scientific suite.
Associated with numarray, and matplotlib for example, its use is very
similar to Matlab.
There are a lot of Python packages/modules for numerical computing and
visualization.
A few links :
General :
http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/python/scicomp/
http://www.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific
http://www.thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/PythonInScience
http://www.scipy.org/
http://starship.python.net/~hinsen/ScientificPython/
Libraries :
http://www.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Libraries
Plotting :
http://www.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
Visualization (3D) :
VTK has python bindings :
http://public.kitware.com/VTK/index.php
There are dozens of other scientific libraries for which python
bindings exist, follow the links above to get an exhaustive list.
Moreover, the scientific python community is active and enlarges
itself day after day.
Hope this helps,
Vincent
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Benedict Verheyen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: net install , initrd, kernel 2.6.10 install woes
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J.F.Gratton wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
I'm kinda hoping someone came across the same problem and might be able
to help me out ...
I've installed a new system using the netinstall images (Debian-
Installer rc2.. works real good, congratulations to all developpers).
It comes with kernel 2.6.8.1. Since previously I was using 2.6.10, I
installed everything, downloaded the kernel tarball and proceeded from
there tweaking this and that, just like I used to do before.
Now.... once the kernel installed, the computer starts bootstrapping; it
loads the kernel in memory, sees my IDE controller, my hard drives and
then BANG ...
VFS: Cannot open root device "34b" or unknown-block (3,75)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
block (3,75).
At first I thought it was because ext3fs was loaded as a module so I
compiled it into the kernel; shouldn't matter anyway because it is a
module with Debian-Installer's kernel 2.6.8.1. To be safe I've put it
into the kernel as well as my IDE controller module.
Then I noticed that kervel 2.6.8.1 from debian-installer uses an initial
RAMDISK (initrd), which I don't use with 2.6.10.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 1- initrd are getting obsolete, and 2- you
use that if you know that some devices wouldn't be usable with a
"normal" boot sequence, otherwise (ie: say you're using some filesystem
for / and you need its module before getting on with the rest of the
boot sequence). For these two reasons I consider the use of initrd
unappropriate on my system.
So how do I get unstuck from this ? my system is actually unusable as it
is, except with 2.6.8.1 that came with Debian-Installer, and I don't
want to stay stuck with that kernel forever :)
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I chose to reinstall my
system with netinst/debian-installer because I thought I could do that
if less time, and now I've spent almost 16hrs on that :(
In attachment, if that can help, you'll find my kernel .config , both
for 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10
Regards,
Jeff
PS: If any of the DD involved in the system's bootstrap reads this, I'd
like to know why you do use initrd ? If I'm wrong in assuming that
there's no real gain with it, I'd gladly stand corrected.
If you know your hardware and only have to compile a kernel for that |
system, an initrd is not needed.
When you make a distro and want people to be able to use a kernel as
they install it without knowing
their hardware, an initrd is your only option.
Regards,
Benedict
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Benedict Verheyen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: switch from 2.4.24 lvm1 to 2.6.10 lvm 2 problems
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Pigeon wrote:
| Quote: | snip
Have the LVM modules been loaded properly? Are they listed in
/etc/mkinitrd/modules? What are the scripts on your initrd doing to
activate the volume group? Do they try modprobing the modules just in
case? Are all the relevant libraries and executables for the LVM tools
being included on the initrd?
I've listed a lot of modules in /etc/modules but i haven't checked |
/etc/mkinitrd/modules so far.
Good tip, i'll check that !
I'm not sure what the scripts are doing ATM.
| Quote: | I've just set up a root on LVM - under 2.4.24 - and had a lot of
problems similar to this most of which turned out to be due to the LVM
shared libraries and the executables in /lib/lvm-10 not being included
on the initrd. I too was finding mkinitrd wasn't behaving quite as I
expected in certain places. I ended up listing the contents of
/lib/lvm-10 and /lib/modules/2.4.24 explicitly in /etc/mkinitrd/files.
Hhhm. Haven't done that either. It will be /lib/lvm-200 in my case and |
/lib/modules/2.6.9
Is it ok to set the dirs or do you have to put all the files in there?
If so, is there a handy script
to run through the dirs and include them?
| Quote: | - I know your 2.4.24 worked, but it looks to me as if your 2.6.x isn't
working for similar reasons to those that gave me trouble on 2.4.24.
If you set DELAY=n in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf there will be a
pause of n seconds immediately after the initrd has been loaded during
which you can press return to get a shell. You can then execute the
scripts by hand, a line at a time, and see what's happening and where
it goes wrong. You'll probably want to include some useful executables
in /etc/mkinitrd/exe to assist your debugging and avoid those "oh
bollocks, I can't run ls" moments. I've got these, in addition to the
LVM ones:
/bin/cp
/bin/mv
/bin/ln
/bin/rm
/bin/ls
/sbin/lsmod
/bin/mkdir
Thanks, i'll try that this evening! |
Regards
Benedict
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