Really need help with iPod and 9.2
 

Ok, here goes. I was really looking forward to getting 9.3 up and going because of, mainly, the iPod support.

However, I don't have the 100 bucks to buy the distro - and I have nothing but horrible luck trying to get it downloaded and burned.

Soooo, to make a long story short... I have decided to just stick with 9.2 till either I end up buying 9.3 (when I get the extra cash), or it comes out attached to one of our favorite magazines.

With that said - I wanted to ask for some real help. I've been trying over and over to find infomation on "how to" change the kernel to turn the EFI partition to "is not set."

I'll be honest - I have absolutely no idea how to do this. I spent some time copying all my important files to a disk, so I could go ahead and try (just in case I screwed the kernel up - I really wouldn't lose anything.

I'm new to Linux... some of the "how to" advice (which is very very good) that has been posted seems to assume you already know how to do certain commands... I don't,

Could someone please help. I need an idiot proof walk through.

This is a good experience for me to learn something. I've already tried google and other MB's, but the details (whcih are what I need most) are lacking.

Thanks.

Dave.

What is wrong about the description I posted on your last request?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...61#post1599161

Maybe you could tell us where you hang and we can get through this together.

Ok....

I opened YaST and installed the kernel source.

Then I opened the terminal and switched to su.

After switching to su I then changed directories to: /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14-obj

From that point I am supposed to remove the .config

so I type rm .config and get "no such file or directory" but when I got that location I can see the .config file right there in front of me.

Ok... I got past that...

I wasn't putting dot in front of config.

I then went through "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config" just fine...

Now when I try to "make oldconfig" I get "no rule to make target 'oldconfig' Stop.

Same thing with the below commands "make xconfig and bxImage"

Not /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14-obj! These are not the 'real' kernel sources.

First check if the source and the kernel have the same version! This is important if you ran YOU updates previously. It is described in the link I gave you. Then switch to the directory /usr/src/linux-<output of 'uname -r'>. Don't forget to aquire access-rights for the user account (also described in that link).

Seems I was too slow.

Make sure you run these commands in the /usr/src/linux-<version> directory and that you have access rights.

I think I'm getting there... got up to the point of compiling - but am getting a new set of errors.

linux:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14 # make bzImage
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: command not found
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc: command not found
CHK include/linux/version.h
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 127
make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
make: *** [include/linux/autoconf.h] Error 2
linux:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14 #

How do I correct this? Or, what I am doing wrong?

So far so good! Now you need to install the gcc package (use YaST -> Install and Remove Software). I am not sure, but you may also need glibc-devel.

Got past the compiling... now in the process of copying the image to the boot directory.

linux:~ # cp ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-24.14
cp: cannot stat `./arch/i386/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
linux:~ #

little odd...

If I interpret the above correctly, you run this command from root's home. But you need to run it from /usr/src/linux-<version>, since the . in ./arch/i386/boot stands for the current directory. You could also type 'cp /usr/src/linux-<version>/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz'

I got the new kernel installed... but I am still getting "cannot read superblock" errors...


However - what's more important is that I actually learned how to do something new. which I think is more vaulable than actually succeeding right off the bat.

Many many thanks abisko!! You have taught me something valuable.

I am glad you appreciate my help.
But we should also get your iPOD running ;)

I suppose you rebooted after you copied the kernel to /boot?
What is your 'dmesg' output after you plugged in the iPOD? Just the last lines that deal with USB.

On my SUSE 9.2, the iPOD is recognised with two partitions (sda1 and sda2), of which only the second one is able to be mounted. This should be done automatically by the submount system SuSE 9.2 uses by default.

dmesg = USB Mass Storage device found at 3


linux:/home/Dave # mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod
mount: /dev/sda2: can't read superblock

linux:/home/Dave # mount /dev/ipod
mount: can't find /dev/ipod in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Are the messages I get.

There should be a little more in dmesg. This is what I get:
The important part is that usb-storage is loaded as driver and that sdb is assigned as device node (on my system, sda is the HDD).

Your first mount command should work (if sda2 is present), but the second one is very unlikely to work, since SUSE doesn't create such a device-node as /dev/ipod

Did you convert the ipod into fat32, or is it still HFS+ formated (default)? In the later case, try 'mount -t hfs (or hfsplus) /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod'

Ok.... still no luck


I did the following steps:

1. uname -r (got linux-2.6.8-24.14) and rpm -q kernel-source = 2.6.8-24.14
2. su
3. chown -R Dave /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14
4. exit
5. cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14
6. rm .config (got a message saying no file existed)
7. zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
8. make oldconfig
9. make menuconfig (I went to File --> Partition Types --> EFI Support and unchecked it - then saved and exited the menu)
10. sed 's/^CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION.*/#CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set/' .config >conf
11. mv conf .config
12. make bzImage
13. su
14. cp ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-24.14
15. cp ./System.map /boot/System.map-linux-2.6.8-24.14

16. Rebooted the system.

17. mkdir /mnt/ipod
18. mount -vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod - did not work
19. mount /dev/sda2 - did not work
20. /mnt/ipod - did not work

21. switched use to root
22. went to /boot and opened the .config file (just to read) - found that EFI was STILL "y" - even after going through all those steps.

Couple of things that happened during the process.

1. rm .config did not work
2. make xconfig did not work

Everything else worked.

Also - in /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14 the .config is showing EFI as "is not set"

I did download all the tools I needed "gcc" and others and made sure I had the kernel sources.

I am not worried about messing up the system at the moment (I have everyting already backed up), so if push came to shove I'd just reinstall the OS.

Can anyone tell me what I did *wrong?" Why the EFI is still showing up as "yes?"

Thanks.