ben h's kernelon debian ppc

adhocking · 02-25-2004, 12:34 AM

When i try to follow the instructions given to me on the site below to install Ben's kernel 2.4, i get an error once i get down to "makekpkg --revision mynickname.1 kernel-image" it returns an error saying that i was unable to create image. Doesn't give any other specifics. Wondering if anyone out there has any ideas. I am obviously new to linux, but I have had experience with unix.

thank you for your time,

mike

since i cannot post a site yet due to my noobie-ness, www *dot* cattlegrid *dot* net *slash* *tilde* christophe *slash* titanium

stony · 02-25-2004, 09:46 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally posted by adhocking
When i try to follow the instructions given to me on the site below to install Ben's kernel 2.4, i get an error once i get down to "makekpkg --revision mynickname.1 kernel-image" it returns an error saying that i was unable to create image. Doesn't give any other specifics. Wondering if anyone out there has any ideas. I am obviously new to linux, but I have had experience with unix.

thank you for your time,

mike

since i cannot post a site yet due to my noobie-ness, www *dot* cattlegrid *dot* net *slash* *tilde* christophe *slash* titanium

arent't there any error messages ? compile errors or something ?

Really nothing ?

cu

adhocking · 02-26-2004, 12:44 AM

I just re-installed woody. I rsync'ed ben's kernel, I haven't tried to compile again. I was wondering if i needed to set up xfree before I upgrade the kernel? Or just to follow the instructions from the site I gave?

thanks,

mike

p.s. If you have any advice, more from what I got in that site, I would be very very appreciative!

stony · 02-26-2004, 07:20 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally posted by adhocking
I just re-installed woody. I rsync'ed ben's kernel, I haven't tried to compile again. I was wondering if i needed to set up xfree before I upgrade the kernel? Or just to follow the instructions from the site I gave?

thanks,

mike

p.s. If you have any advice, more from what I got in that site, I would be very very appreciative!

sry, I can't open the page. Timeout. So I don't know what he's writing there.
You don't have to setup X to build a Kernel (X is just a addon

)

The "debian way" of building a kernel is to get the latest kernel sources from www.kernel.org , untar 'em in /usr/src

tar xvfj linux-2.*.tar.bz2

put a link onto the directoy called "linux"

ln -s /usr/src/linux-$version /usr/src/linux

configure the kernel ...

cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig

and then do a

make-kpkg kernel_image

in /usr/src/linux. The --revision isn't needed at least, cause the make-kpkg tool sets the revision up to "custom 10.00" for you ...

make-kpkg --targets shows up all targets you can build (with documentation and so on)

After the package has been build, go back to /usr/src and install it

dpkg --install kernel-image-$version_custom_10.00.deb

Btw: you could paste the last 5-10 lines of the code that are above the exit of make-kpkg.

If there are any questions, just ask.

cu

llamakc · 02-26-2004, 09:29 AM

You could always rsync the 2.6 kernel version too.

Code:

cd /usr/src/

mkdir benh-2.5

rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh benh-2.5

Don't worry, its at 2.6.3 right now. You can still use make-kpkg after menuconfig too. Don't forget to change CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y to n if you end up getting a bunch of this in the logs:

Code:

 Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 1
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 1, Code: 24, Value: 0
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 0
> Jan 4 22:54:52 oz kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0

The cattlegrid page never loaded for me either, btw.

adhocking · 02-26-2004, 08:43 PM

Thanks a lot guys! I haven't compiled yet, I am sorry that that page wouldn't load, I tried it all day today as well, and no luck for me either. Hmm, so I can rsync 2.5 or 2.6? I wasn't sure about those trees. I'll check it out. So yea, I have a .config file from a page. Which brings me to my next question. I place this .config file in the linux directory before I compile and build to make my life easier? I have 1 GB of RAM so I know i have to change some fields, ENABLE_HIGH_MEM=y, and such. I am getting the .config from ppckernel.org the benh 2.4 page for tibooks. I was wondering if this .config file is compatable with the 2.5 and 2.6 versions? I am assuming so, but I just want to make sure before I try and do this again

Anyways, I gotta go to work, any more help would be awesome!

mike

liquigel · 02-27-2004, 01:45 AM

adhocking wrote:
since i cannot post a site yet due to my noobie-ness, www *dot* cattlegrid *dot* net *slash* *tilde* christophe *slash* titanium

Huh? Why can't you post a link?

Say, a while ago I installed debian on my Powerbook (though it's now currently running OS X). I put up some info on the process I went through here:
http://users.bestweb.net/~john3g/ppc.../ppc_help.html

One thing I thought was weird about the benh source -- why does it contain source for all those other architectures besides PPC? It seems to waste a lot of extra bandwidth.

Zaskar · 02-27-2004, 02:53 AM

if all u want is a 2.4 kernel, you could always reinstall with the BF24 option, that usses a 2.4 kernel on install

-Zaskar

adhocking · 02-27-2004, 04:18 AM

Does anyone know about what I should do about the .config that i can get from a lot of sites (there are a lot of sites where people have posted their .config for the tibook that I currently have as well)? Can I use that for the 2.5 or 2.6 source? I would assume so, unless there are more fields differentiated in the different kernel builds? Thanks a lot guys, you have been a great help!

mike

p.s. Yea, I just signed up for this forum, and it will not allow me to post hyperlinks until I have successfully posted 5 times, they say that it tries to deter people from spamming this forum.

oh and here is my system:

cpu: unknown (80010201)
clock: 800MHz
revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201)
bogomips: 665.19
machine : PowerBook3,4
motherboard : PowerBook3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 1024MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld