[parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[Peter Lavender]

Hi Everyone,

Is upgrading the kernel for a stable system the same as for i386?  I
haven't done this with debian before.. but I'm sure there's something
debian about doing it.. :)

I'll find the relevant doco.. just want to know if it's the same for
the HPPA stuff.

Thanks,


Pete
:wq

Re: [parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[Randolph Chung]

> Is upgrading the kernel for a stable system the same as for i386?  I
> haven't done this with debian before.. but I'm sure there's something
> debian about doing it.. :)
> 
> I'll find the relevant doco.. just want to know if it's the same for
> the HPPA stuff.

Check out the "Kernel installation" section of the parisc linux boot
howto

http://pateam.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/kernelinstall.html

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/

Re: [parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[Peter Lavender]

* Randolph Chung (randolph@tausq.org) wrote:


> > Is upgrading the kernel for a stable system the same as for i386?  I
> > haven't done this with debian before.. but I'm sure there's something
> > debian about doing it.. :)
> > 
> > I'll find the relevant doco.. just want to know if it's the same for
> > the HPPA stuff.
> 
> Check out the "Kernel installation" section of the parisc linux boot
> howto
> 
> http://pateam.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/kernelinstall.html

Thanks... this outlines what to do with a custom kernel.. I was
thinking there might be a debian way... like with kernel-packages (I
just reading up about it now for my i386 based system).

The kernel on the 715/64 is from last year sometime ago... I can get
the kernel version with uname becuase it seg faults.


Pete
:wq

Re: [parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[Andrew Shugg]

Peter Lavender said:
> Thanks... this outlines what to do with a custom kernel.. I was
> thinking there might be a debian way... like with kernel-packages (I
> just reading up about it now for my i386 based system).

You can build your new kernel the Debian way with make-kpkg - the
kernel-package system is available for the hppa architecture.  I don't
know if it works yet in all of Debian's architectures (ie knows how to
configure all the boot loaders) but I think it knows about PALO so hppa
should be fine.

> The kernel on the 715/64 is from last year sometime ago... I can get
> the kernel version with uname becuase it seg faults.

You might be able to find out with 'file /vmlinux' ... or 'dmesg|head'
or 'head /var/log/dmesg' ...

Andrew.

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