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darien
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 Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject: Trying to upgrade kernel to 2.6 |
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I have tried to get the mm-sources for the 2.6 kernel to compile but can't get it to work.
Try one... configured and compiled but the screen stuck at OK booting the kernel (yes I have virtual terminal thingy turned on)
Try two... genkernel but now whenever I boot the new kernel it immediately restarts my pc.
What am I doing wrong? Which sources do you recommend for someone who wants to move to the 2.6 kernel?
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ikaro
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
I would recommend the stable linux tree that comes from linus ( vanilla ) atm is 2.6.5
-mm tree is too much testing and will give you more troubles than anything else.
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darien
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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so... gentoo-dev-sources? or dev-sources?
is it masked or something, cause i don't see it.
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li1_getoo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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development-sources makes wayn to many release 
| Code: | 315M 0 315M 0% /dev/shm
wwwj root # emerge -s gentoo-dev-sources
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gentoo-dev-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources
Latest version available: 2.6.5
Latest version installed: 2.6.5
Size of downloaded files: 34,234 kB
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree
License: GPL-2
wwwj root # emerge -p gentoo-dev-sources
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5
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darien
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, those are the ones I just emerged. I'm genkernaling them now to see if I can get it to work.
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ikaro
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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genkernel its just a script that setup the kernel for you.
like, enables everything in the kernel as modules ( bloat )
and then load it all up on boot ( bloat )
i see on your sig that you call gentoo , "gentoo genkernel 2.4.22" like if it was some subversion or something 
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darien
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, just figured I'd get it to work, then tweak ya know.
I just tried the genkernel with a no-go so I compiled myself and got it to work (using it now) and I do actually see an increase (games aren't as slow) now just to tweak it down to get rid of the stuff I don't need.
Thanks for the help
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