From: Vlad Codrea <VladCodrea@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD problems booting FC7 RC3
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:55:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46170820.2000105@mail.utexas.edu> (raw)
Hi Steve,
> Do you know if this patch has been put into the mainline kernel?
Yes, it's in the mainline 2.6.21-rc6 kernel.
> I got
> this problem when trying to boot the Fedora Core 7 RC3 livecd - so I
> really can't make a new kernel and test it.
If your HP N5430 laptop has a floppy drive, I suggest you install a
minimal Linux distro through that. While tracking down a CD drive error,
I found that Debian works well for compiling kernels and testing
patches. Here are the steps:
Download boot.img, root.img, net-drivers-1.img, and net-drivers-2.img
from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy
. Write each image to a different floppy using the command "dd
if=XXX.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync". Boot from the boot
floppy and follow the installation directions.
Once the system is up, install the following apps:
# apt-get install wget automake bzip2 gzip gcc kernel-package patch tar
Download and unpack the latest kernel:
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
# tar -xvf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
# cd linux-2.6.20
# wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.21-rc6.bz2
# bunzip2 patch-2.6.21-rc6.bz2
# patch -p0 < patch-2.6.21-rc6
Download a .config file that specifies libata drivers:
# wget http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117391341014871&q=p4
# mv index.html\?l\=linux-ide .config
Compile and install the kernel:
# make-kpkg kernel_image --initrd &
# dpkg --install ../linux-image-2.6.21-rc6_2.6.21-rc6-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Reboot.
> Also it takes
> over an hour to build the kernel on my laptop
The initial compilation does take awhile, but subsequent compilations
(ie. after applying a patch) should only take a couple of minutes.
Vlad
next reply other threads:[~2007-04-07 2:55 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-07 2:55 Vlad Codrea [this message]
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2007-04-02 19:58 CD problems booting FC7 RC3 Stephen Clark
2007-04-03 2:40 ` Albert Lee
2007-04-03 13:37 ` Stephen Clark
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