| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Bjosch
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 148
|
 Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: Update to Gentoo-sources-2.16-r3 [SOLVED] |
 |
|
I'm running for quite a time a 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 on PowerMac G4-Dual and decided now to update to the new stable 2.6.16-gentoo-r3. After the emerge I read this wiki-docu: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml and gave a look to the forum. There I found these two comments by JoseJX https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-460195.html and https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-458059.html and followed his advice:
| Quote: | Aemilia bjosch # cd /usr/src/linux
Aemilia linux # make pmac32_defconfig
***
*** Can't find default configuration "arch/ppc/configs/pmac32_defconfig"!
***
make[1]: *** [pmac32_defconfig] Error 1
make: *** [pmac32_defconfig] Error 2
|
Before going on I'd like to understand what the problem is. Also till now I never updated (on ppc) to a newer kernel in my running system, only when I had to do a new installation. So I want to be 100% sicure that there is no serious problem. Can anyone explain to me what it means? I did not find an answer in the forums nor documentation. Thanks.
Last edited by Bjosch on Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:34 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
didymos
Advocate
Joined: 10 Oct 2005
Posts: 4798
Location: California
|
| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
You may not even run into the problem. Remember, you can emerge new sources without removing the old one. The sources are just sitting there until you actually decide to build a new kernel from them. Even then, you can compile the new kernel to check for problems without actually installing it. Even if you install it, the old image, config, system map, and modules are kept just in case something goes wrong. Configure your bootloader so you can choose the old, working kernel.
_________________
Thomas S. Howard |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
corsair
Retired Dev
Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 451
Location: Aachen, Germany
|
| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Code: |
***
*** Can't find default configuration "arch/ppc/configs/pmac32_defconfig"!
***
|
'make' is looking for arch/ppc/... , but that is not the correct place for the config. From 2.6.15 on that should be arch/powerpc/... . I assume you have not updated the /usr/src/linux link to the new sources and got into the old kernel sources directory. On 2.6.14 there was no pmac32_defconfig IIRC.
Please try to find out where your /usr/src/linux link points to ('ls -l /usr/src' would do the trick) and then make sure you enter the correct kernel source directory.
Regards,
Markus |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bjosch
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 148
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
| A new link indeed resolved this! I was afraid I might get problems with booting the old kernel but of course I did not. I have problems with the new kernel - but this will become a new thread. Thanks for your help! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Gentoo on PPC
