Re: Pb with 2.4.25 kernel

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Krystian Bac?awski wrote:
> W li?cie z pon, 14-06-2004, godz. 06:28, Sven Luther pisze: 
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:36:04PM +0200, Wilfried Catteau wrote:
> > > Le Samedi 12 Juin 2004 04:22, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > > > > I try to use the 2.4.25 kernel but at boot time, i have a problem
> > > > > > > with the Cyberstorm SCSI controler which works well in 2.4.22 (except
> > > > > > > for the cdrom). Here is the dmesg output:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > BTW, are you usingh the debian kernel apckage ? If yes, please fill a
> > > > > > bug repor,t if not, well, if you run debian give it a try.
> > > > >
> > > > > I use the debian woody but not their kernel package: i take the sources
> > > > > from linux-apus cvs repository and compile them.
> > > >
> > > > Bah. another one of those.Would you at least give them a try ( the one
> > > > in ssid/sarge though, we care little for woody at this point, altough i
> > > > pass lot of time building security upgrades nobody uses anyway ), and
> > > > fill bug reports if it doesn't work ? I took over maintainership, but
> > > > have no apus hardware anymore.
> > > 
> > > I tried the "kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb" package but it 
> > > doesn't work: i have this message from the bootstrap program:
> > > "unable to read exec header from kernel file".
> > 
> > Well, could you fill a (severe i think) bug report about this ? 
> > 
> > > Has someone already installed it to know if this pb is relative to my Amiga?
> > 
> > Well, nobody has even bothered to test it here, despite me asking for
> > this test. Keep in mind that some effort goes into maintaining the
> > debian apus kernels, both for unstable and testing (which should move to
> > 2.4.26 or some common kernel for all arches) as well as security updates
> > of stable, so if nobody uses the debian kernel on apus, it may make
> > sense to remove it. Also, this would mean that there would be no
> > debian-installer support for apus in sarge. There is code, and i made
> > sure the installer is built, but nobody ever tested it, so ...
> 
> I'll try to build it and test it when I get home and I have access to APUS hardware.
> Unfortunately It'll be about the beginning of July.
> 
> 
> I downloaded debian packages kernel-source-2.4.25 and
> kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus, however I didn't manage to cross compile it.
> I'll give a second try soon.
> 
> There was no problem during cross-compiling sources from CVS.

Well, we are not running Gentoo, the package don't need compiling, just
testing, they are already built. Mmm, maybe the fact that i built them
on my pegasos could have some influence.

Friendly,

Sven Luther