Giving up 9.3 till

crazibri · 04-23-2005, 05:29 PM

Would it help if I said you can learn the command and what they do by using the manual pages aka man pages.

on command window type "man <command>" so if you do "man zcat" you can see that its used to uncompress tar files.

SuSE05 · 04-23-2005, 05:37 PM

thanks, very helpfull tip indeed...

but, it doesn't answer my question of where I went wrong with my recompiling of the kernel and why the iPod still wont mount.

SuSE05 · 04-23-2005, 08:43 PM

anyone?

thanks

SuSE05 · 04-23-2005, 11:26 PM

Ok - I think I'm almost there...

I decided to try something - so I switched user to root and renamed the config file in /boot to "old" and then copied the new config (the one made from the previous page) to the /boot directory. I then rebooted and tried to mount the ipod - it worked....

linux:/home/Dave # mount -t usbfs /dev/sda /mnt/ipod

I forgot that I needed to mount sda2 to access the data...

linux:/home/Dave # mount -t usbfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod
mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/ipod busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda is already mounted on /mnt/ipod
linux:/home/Dave # umount -t usbfs /dev/sda /mnt/ipod
umount: /dev/sda: not mounted
umount: /dev/sda: not mounted
linux:/home/Dave # mount -t usbfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod
linux:/home/Dave #

Looks as thought it worked.... now when I try to access the iPod though GTKpod - I am getting the same errors as before.

"'/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import aborted." <-- if from the GTKpod GUI not the terminal. I get this error when I try to import.

"iPod directory structure must be present before synching to the iPod can be performed." <-- is from the GTKpod GUI not the terminal. I get this error when I try to sync.

Is the issue now with GTKpod - or is it still a mounting issue with the EFI? I haven't tried to mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod as the above mounting seemed to work.

Something else I found was that the icon for the mass storage USB is not showing up in /drives: -- As I thought it would.

So, what now?

SuSE05 · 04-23-2005, 11:59 PM

Never mind - still getting cannot read superblock when I try to mount -tvfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod

I'll just log into Windows and use it till I eventually get a copy of 9.3

Thanks all for the help - this is just taking to much time for something not very important.

SuSE05 · 04-24-2005, 08:55 AM

bump (just once)...

not ready to give up just yet...

abisko00 · 04-24-2005, 09:03 AM

Sorry, I was away for a while...

You did a couple of mistakes. The following steps are alternatives. I suppose you reversed the succesful first step by some syntax error in the second step. Either do

Code:

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)

or

Code:

10. sed 's/^CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION.*/#CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set/' .config >conf
11. mv conf .config

Next: 'make xconfig' did not work because you need to install the package qt3-devel (this was described later in the thread I gave you the link).

And next:

Quote:

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

Apart from a little syntax error ('mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod'), this manual mounting will probably not work in SUSE 9.2. Mounting is done by submount, which will create a mountpoint automatically in /media. So if you want to use gtkpod, you have to change the moutpoint in its preferences to the one that submount creates, or create a symlink with the name /mnt/ipod to this directory. This is actually show here:

Code:

linux:/home/Dave # mount -t usbfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod
mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/ipod busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda is already mounted on /mnt/ipod

If you type 'cat /etc/mtab' on console, it will show you all mounted drives, and you can check the name of the created mountpoint.

SuSE05 · 04-24-2005, 09:56 AM

I followed the instructions...

Still getting cannot read superblock.

I switched user to root and checked the /boot directory. The only "config" file in the /boot directory is config-smp. And, it is still showing EFI_Partition as "Y" -- when I go to the /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14 directory - there is a .config file and the EFI_Partition is set to: "is not set."

Not sure what else to do.

abisko00 · 04-24-2005, 10:14 AM

The config-file in /boot doesn't do anything. It is simply there as a backup. And it will show the configuration of the SUSE standard kernel. But this gives me an idea what could be wrong:

When you copied the new kernel into /boot, you named it by it's version number.

Quote:

14. cp ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-24.14

But the config file you found is called config-smp. That tells me you run a specialised multiprocessor-kernel. You need to name the new kernel exactly like your old kernel! So have a look how the file starting with 'vmlinuz' is called and overwrite this file with the new kernel (bzImage). Make a backup of the file, before you do this.

If you want to know if your actual kernel is correctly configured, type

Code:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep EFI

This will show the configuration of the running kernel.

And try to understand what you are doing. I don't want to explain every step in very detail. This would take too long and has been done already.