requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Mark Watts]

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Now that 2.6.0-test is out, can someone point me at the definative 
instrictions for compiling and booting a 2.6.x kernel?

I understand that the compile process has changed since 2.4.x, and I may also 
need some updated module related things.

This doesnt have to be a handholding guide, just a quick rundown/qhecklist 
will do.

Cheers,

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:

> Now that 2.6.0-test is out, can someone point me at the definative 
> instrictions for compiling and booting a 2.6.x kernel?
> 
> I understand that the compile process has changed since 2.4.x, and I may also 
> need some updated module related things.
> 
> This doesnt have to be a handholding guide, just a quick rundown/qhecklist 
> will do.

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt 

The minimum required versions of programs is as usual in 
Documentation/Changes.

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.

cu
Adrian

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Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Antonio Vargas]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
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> Now that 2.6.0-test is out, can someone point me at the definative 
> instrictions for compiling and booting a 2.6.x kernel?
> 
> I understand that the compile process has changed since 2.4.x, and I may also 
> need some updated module related things.
> 
> This doesnt have to be a handholding guide, just a quick rundown/qhecklist 
> will do.
> 

Mark, I'm also interested on this, and also willing to install
a recent distro on purpose. Would you mind if we shared install experiences?

Planning to download suse from ftp to do a network install at the moment.
Will probably compile 2.6.0-test1 meanwhile :)

Greets, Antonio.

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Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Mark Watts]

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Sure - I'm trying it on Mandrake 9.1

I've already had fun with the module_init_tools from 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/

Basically after doing the ./configure --prefix=/ && make moveold, I was left 
with a bunch of dangling symlinks in /sbin

I've since grabed the src.rpm from here: 
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/SRPMS/
and that seems to be behaving a bit more (although I haven't rebooted yet :)

Everything else is from a standard Mandrake 9.1 install, so I'm using gcc 
3.2.2 and associated gubbins.

Mark

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
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> > Now that 2.6.0-test is out, can someone point me at the definative
> > instrictions for compiling and booting a 2.6.x kernel?
> >
> > I understand that the compile process has changed since 2.4.x, and I may
> > also need some updated module related things.
> >
> > This doesnt have to be a handholding guide, just a quick
> > rundown/qhecklist will do.
>
> Mark, I'm also interested on this, and also willing to install
> a recent distro on purpose. Would you mind if we shared install
> experiences?
>
> Planning to download suse from ftp to do a network install at the moment.
> Will probably compile 2.6.0-test1 meanwhile :)
>
> Greets, Antonio.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED

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Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Jose Luis Domingo Lopez]

On Monday, 14 July 2003, at 18:37:49 +0200,
Antonio Vargas wrote:

> Mark, I'm also interested on this, and also willing to install
> a recent distro on purpose. Would you mind if we shared install experiences?
> 
I have been doing some real (workstation-class) work with Debian Sid and
2.5.x kernels with great success for a while now. The only problem I had
so far was starting at 2.5.74, when DM/LVM2 ioctl version changed, and
my current Sid device mapper tools are not still up to date (and
compilation of LVM2.0.0 from sources fails).

Hope this helps.

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Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
Linux Registered User #189436     Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.5.73)

Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

[Romano Giannetti]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:17:07PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
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> Sure - I'm trying it on Mandrake 9.1
> 
> I've already had fun with the module_init_tools from 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
> 
> Basically after doing the ./configure --prefix=/ && make moveold, I was left 
> with a bunch of dangling symlinks in /sbin
> 
> I've since grabed the src.rpm from here: 
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/SRPMS/
> and that seems to be behaving a bit more (although I haven't rebooted yet :)
> 
> Everything else is from a standard Mandrake 9.1 install, so I'm using gcc 
> 3.2.2 and associated gubbins.
> 

I'm also interested (I have a mdk 9.1 installed, too), so please keep us
informed. I would like to test 2.6, but I have to do real work too, so I
need the ability to switch back safely to a 2.4 kernel... so if you succeed,
please share! Thanks a lot! 

      Romano


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Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....

["Andrey Borzenkov"]

Folks, if you want to be on bleeding edge with Mandrake you really
have to read cooker :))

I have put a set of support SRPMs for Mandrake 9.1 on

http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/

They currently include initscripts, mkinitrd, module-init-tools and
modultils. I had devfsd and gkrellm as well but now they are
incorporated into mainstream, just fetch them from cooker.

Using these packages I freely switch between 2.4 and 2.6 on the same
Mandrake 9.1 based box. Actually the reason I made them was exactly
this - I needed abililty to work normally on supermount for 2.6 :)

They are fully modules-enabled, actually my config is basically
Mandrake default with obvious 2.6 modifications (I made it more and
more modular with the time), initrd, devfs etc are supported.

module-init-tools will try to build modprobe.conf from your modules.conf and include suitable /etc/modprobe.devfs; also I have
packaged default module aliases.

I really need feedback with them - they work for me but other people
had issues with module autoloading.

I will update them every now and then for new Mandrake packages.

regards

-andrey

>On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:17:07PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
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>> Sure - I'm trying it on Mandrake 9.1
>> 
>> I've already had fun with the module_init_tools from 
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
>> 
>> Basically after doing the ./configure --prefix=/ && make moveold, I was left 
>> with a bunch of dangling symlinks in /sbin
>> 
>> I've since grabed the src.rpm from here: 
>> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/SRPMS/
>> and that seems to be behaving a bit more (although I haven't rebooted yet :)
>> 
>> Everything else is from a standard Mandrake 9.1 install, so I'm using gcc 
>> 3.2.2 and associated gubbins.
>> 

> I'm also interested (I have a mdk 9.1 installed, too), so please keep us
> informed. I would like to test 2.6, but I have to do real work too, so I
> need the ability to switch back safely to a 2.4 kernel... so if you succeed,
> please share! Thanks a lot!