Problem : patching the kernel

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Bjoern Heller mailinglists at hellercom.de
Wed May 13 21:19:31 UTC 2009


Hello,

Have you really selected the HFC e1 driver in menuconfig??
You need to install it with a asterisk, to work immediately.
And dont forget to include the whole misdn stuff...
I tried it again on a fresh installed machine, and it worked fine.

Best regards
Björn Heller


Am 13.05.2009 um 15:28 schrieb Eric Cathelinaud:

> Hi,
>
> Finally i used yaird instead of mkinitramfs to build the image and  
> it works fine:
> apt-get install yaird
>
> yaird –v –o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.4 2.6.27.4
>
> *if yaird return an error saying /lib/modules/2.6.27.4/ 
> modules.pcimap is missing:
> depmod -a -m -F /boot/System.map-2.6.27.4 2.6.27.4
>
> dpkg --configure -a
>
>
>
> Now I can boot on kernel 2.6.27.4
> Thanks a lot for the help
>
> I still have a problem with hfcmulti.dslot=1
> After reboot it says that it is not recognized and is ignored.
> My /boot/grub/menu.lst is as follow:
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.27.4
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4 root=/dev/hda1  
> hfcmulti.dslot=1 ro quiet
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.4
>
> and during the make-kpkg linux-image --initrd -- 
> revision=openbsc01.0, I saw these lines:
> CC [M]  drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.o
> CC [M]  drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcmulti.o
> ...
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
>
> 2009/5/13 Eric Cathelinaud <e.cathelinaud at googlemail.com>
> Hi Holger,
>
> I have got an IDE hard desk, not SATA.
> I think it's coming from the initrd missing. I don't understand why  
> there is an error when launching the command:
>
> mkinitramfs-kpkg -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.4 2.6.27.4
> The error is :
>
> cp: operand of the target file missing after `/tmp/tmp.XXXXmDVe5B/ 
> sbin/'
>
> I tried to do 'update-initramfs -u -k all' but still have the same  
> problem:
> cp: operand of the target file missing after `/tmp/ 
> tmp.XXXX<something>/sbin/'
>
> The software is using cp for some reason but something is missing  
> and I don't know what.
> I installed mkinitramfs and libbash (needed by mkinitramfs). Did I  
> miss something?
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
> 2009/5/12 Holger Adams <holger at kernreaktor.org>
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Cathelinaud wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I followed Debian_Getting_Started chapter in the wiki. There  
> wasn't any
> > error but, after rebooting, the kernel crashed:
> >
> > Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.27.4'
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet  
> hfcmulti.dslot=1
> > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1796901]
> >
> >
> > [0.000000] Unknown boot option 'hfcmulti.dslot=1': ignoring
> > [0.796125] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root  
> fs on
> > unknown-block(0,0)
>
> Have you forgotten to add SATA support to the kernel and renaming the
> hardisk to sda (fstab)?
>
> Best Regards,
> Holger
>
>

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