kernel 2.6 needed

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contigab · Post by **contigab** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:10 pm

Hi,
I upgraded my pc and now i have a 160Gb SATA hard disk.

The problem is that in order to have access to it i must use a 2.6 kernel series. Unfortunately the x86-2004.0 release contains just a plain old kernel 2.4, so my hard disk cannot be recognized.

Looking around into the 2004.0 gentoo livecd i found out that it contains some 2.6.1 kernel somewhere inside (i can see an entry in /lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo-r*). But i guess it is the smp enabled kernel, which on my single cpu machine, oops-es as soon as it starts.

The list of available kernels on the livecd is as follows: gentoo (it is a 2.4 kernel), gentoo-nofb (also a 2.4) , smp (unknown kernel release), smp-nofb (also unknown kernel).

So let's start with the questions:

1) is there into the livecd a "hidden" 2.6 kernel non smp which i can use?

2) is there a gentoo livecd which contains a 2.6 kernel?

3) SELinux enabled gentoo livecd's do contain a 2.6 kernel, but they don't have the driver sk98lin.ko needed by my ethernet card, so they can't be used to install gentoo.

4) does someone know if there is somewhere a livecd (even non gentoo) that i can use to start installation?

Since my cpu is an amd64 i could even use an amd64 livecd but for now i don't want to setup an IA64 system because it is still too much untested for me. I would like to install a plain old IA32 system.

So let's go to the fifth question...

5) is there a way to install an IA32 system starting with an AMD64 2004.0 gentoo livecd?

I tried it and i got the following problems:

Starting from stage 1 I can't complete the bootstrap because i get some error about unrecognized x86_64 architecture.

Starting from stage 3 I emerge genkernel and gentoo-dev-sources and when i try to com[pile my new kernel, i obtain as the only available cpu architectures AMD64 and IA64 (generic). It seems that it is impossible to compile a kernel for a IA32 architecture.

Buge · Post by **Buge** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:34 pm

I haven't used the 2004.0 LiveCD, so I can't tell you if you can use a 2.6 Kernel, but you may want to try an install from Knoppix instead if you really don't want to use 64bit arch.

contigab · Post by **contigab** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:10 pm

Actually i went to knoppix's homepage but i saw that they distribute a livecd with a 2.4 kernel, which is not suitable for me because of the lack of sata drivers.

The problem is that if i start with the amd64 cd of gentoo, then i am not able to cross compile the kernel.

if i do: make ARCH=i386

i get a lot of errors about incomplete types and missing headers. Also i must say that i discovered a bug in genkernel:

genkernel all --arch-override=x86

it doesn't work because it tries to use the command make ARCH=x86, which is not right (it should be make ARCH=i386).

Buge · Post by **Buge** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:31 pm

My bad. The new Knoppix with Kernel 2.6.3 appeared as part of the german C't magazin recently, leading me to believe it was available to everyone. Seems that this was the only version so far, and will only be available for public download by the end of march.

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:44 pm

What SATA controller do you have? Because the kernel given on the current knoppix cd does work with some SATA drives. Like the Silicon Image controllers are supported from what I remember.

And you could try downloading one of the Gentoo experimental kernel 2.6 LiveCDs. I've got one of those and hopefully it'll work once I get my new system finished and put together.

Berni · Post by **Berni** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:47 pm

You could try Berry Linux which is available here: http://berry.sourceforge.jp/ It's also a LiveCD featuring a 2.6 kernel!

Otherwise you can get the Knoppix 3.4 c't Edition in Bittorrent or Emule.

As far as I've heard, a new OFFICIAL version of Knoppix containing a 2.6x-kernel should be released by the Cebit-start (=>around 18th March).

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:56 pm

Buge wrote:My bad. The new Knoppix with Kernel 2.6.3 appeared as part of the german C't magazin recently, leading me to believe it was available to everyone. Seems that this was the only version so far, and will only be available for public download by the end of march.

The latest KnoppiXMAME ships with a 2.6.x kernel.

contigab · Post by **contigab** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:38 am

Luckily i found another solution.

I have installed gentoo into an old ATA hard disk i have. Once I will be in the new system (with a 2.6 kernel), i will just partition my new SATA hard disk, format it and copy the files.

I have already tried to copy from one hard disk to another before and it works as long as i don't modify the permissions of the files (i.e. using cp -Rp).