Kernel on Penguin box
I have a Penguin Relion 120 1U server with dual PIII/933 (Coppermine) CPUs, 2GB of ECC RAM and MegaRAID controller with dual 36GB SCSI drives.
Installed Debian, upgraded to sid. This gave me kernel 2.6.15-1-486 on install. Unfortunately, this server is slated to run VMware server, and since Debian is not on VMware's "supported" list, it has to compile the kernel. The gcc installed is 4.1.5, and the kernel was compiled under gcc-4.0.3, so the module will not load. I attempted to install another canned kernel from the repository, and every time I do, the system gives me Kernel panic: init not found. try passing init= to the kernel I have tried 2.6.16-2-686-smp and 2.6.17-2-686. Both give me this error. On install (apt-get install <kernel-version>), it runs initrd, and I see the initrd-img for the appropriate kernel. I didn't want to have to roll my own kernel for a server, and especially if I spend the time configuring and compiling it and it panics on me. Does anyone have any recommendations/advice on getting this to boot something more current? (hopefully it was compiled with the same verison of gcc...) Thanks, --Storm |
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Check in your /boot/grub/menu.lst to make sure that there is an initrd line beneath the kernel line for the newer kernels like for the old one. For the vmware problem apt-get install gcc-4.0 then in the console where you will compile the modules export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 if this fails then ln -sfn /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc as root and try again do not forget to change the link back to the gcc-4.1because software will eventually expect it to be there. |
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title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp Regarding the gcc problem, it appears that gcc-4.0.3-6 is actually gcc-4.0.4, so I guess I'm going to either have to pull the gcc-4.0.3 from sarge or etch temporarily. Well, that didn't work too well. Code:
monitor:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install gcc-4.0/testing gcc-4.0-base/testing |
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Thanks, --Storm |
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