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Caldera Openlinux and 2.3.xx

Caldera Openlinux and 2.3.xx

Post by Rusty Buzhard » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



Hi,
    I am running (Caldera's) OpenLinux 2.3 (kernel version 2.2.10), and I
was wanting to try to upgrade to the 2.3.51 kernel.  I know this kernel
isn't a stable kernel yet, but I would still like to try and run it.  I
unzip the source file and use all the make commands (make xconfig, clean,
bzImage, modules, modules_install).  All this is done without any errors.  I
then configure lilo.  My problem is when I try to boot the new kernel
nothing happens.  I went to Caldera's site and they said to upgrade the
kernel use rpms, only I don't think rpms for 2.3.51 exist.  Is it possible
to upgrade the kernel without rpms?  Thank you for your help.

Rusty Buzhardt

 
 
 
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Caldera Openlinux and 2.3.xx

Post by Lonni J. Friedma » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



> Hi,
>     I am running (Caldera's) OpenLinux 2.3 (kernel version 2.2.10), and I
> was wanting to try to upgrade to the 2.3.51 kernel.  I know this kernel
> isn't a stable kernel yet, but I would still like to try and run it.  I
> unzip the source file and use all the make commands (make xconfig, clean,
> bzImage, modules, modules_install).  All this is done without any errors.  I
> then configure lilo.  My problem is when I try to boot the new kernel
> nothing happens.  I went to Caldera's site and they said to upgrade the
> kernel use rpms, only I don't think rpms for 2.3.51 exist.  Is it possible
> to upgrade the kernel without rpms?  Thank you for your help.

> Rusty Buzhardt

What does "nothing happens" mean?  No LILO, no kernel after LILO runs?

 
 
 
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Caldera Openlinux and 2.3.xx

Post by Michel Catuda » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00


Rusty Buzhardt a crit :

Quote:

> Hi,
>     I am running (Caldera's) OpenLinux 2.3 (kernel version 2.2.10), and I
> was wanting to try to upgrade to the 2.3.51 kernel.  I know this kernel
> isn't a stable kernel yet, but I would still like to try and run it.  I
> unzip the source file and use all the make commands (make xconfig, clean,
> bzImage, modules, modules_install).  All this is done without any errors.  I
> then configure lilo.  My problem is when I try to boot the new kernel
> nothing happens.  I went to Caldera's site and they said to upgrade the
> kernel use rpms, only I don't think rpms for 2.3.51 exist.  Is it possible
> to upgrade the kernel without rpms?  Thank you for your help.

> Rusty Buzhardt

It seems to me that you didn't copy the files.

Normaly you would do this : cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.51

See what I got in my lilo.conf and that will give you an idea.
Keep in mind that I am using the OS/2 boot manager and that lilo
resides on the root of the partition and not on the MBR. I also
boot 4 other Linux distributions plus OS/2, Winblows 98 and DRDOS.
You will have to run lilo before you reboot. And make sure that you
just add an item in lilo.conf and not replace your current boot because
if you screwed up in the compile you will have nothing to come back to.
By having multiple choices it is always possible to come back to a
system that doesn't crash. For instance, the kernel 99pre1 is dangerous
and gives deadly crashes. Some new bugs in PPP and the printer support
made this kernel useless. It is not fixed as of pre2 either.

#
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.51
  root = /dev/hdb2
  label = linux
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.99pre1
  root = /dev/hdb2
  label = linux1
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14
  root = /dev/hdb2
  label = linux2
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.49
  root = /dev/hdb2
  label = linux3

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Caldera Openlinux and 2.3.xx

Post by Lonni J. Friedma » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00





> > What does "nothing happens" mean?  No LILO, no kernel after LILO runs?

> When I say nothing happens, I mean I get to LILO and type in the name of my
> new kernel.  After I do this the screen goes blank.  I have copied the newly
> compiled bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.51.  I then ran sbin/lilo--the image
> was added successfully.  I have LILO configured in the following manner:

> # I didn't change anything above these lines
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.3.51
>   root = /dev/hdb2
>   label = new
>   read-only

> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10-modular
>   root = /dev/hdb2
>   label = linux
>   read-only

What are you typing at the lilo prompt:  The only things that will work
are "new" & "linux".  Do either of them work?
 
 
 
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1. Newbie: Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 won't install

I sent this to Caldera's tech support a couple days ago, no
answer yet, so I thought I'd try the Linux newsgroups.  I'm
continuing to read and learn, but am impatient for "hands-on"
with my new toy.

I couldn't install it from my CD-ROM, so I copied the entire
"Linux Kernel and installation" CD to a spare FAT16 hard drive
partition, using Windows 95 Explorer.  Note: All partitions are
below cylinder 1023.

The Lizard graphical installer won't run (locks at CD-ROM, or if
I specify "er=cautious" at startup, it doesn't lock but does fail
and has me do a hwinfo dump).

However, the Lisa text-mode-graphics installer seems OK, it goes
through the initial steps and seems to prepare my swap partition
OK.

When I tell Lisa the partition with the install CD contents, it
finds it.  (I know because I had the wrong CD copied there
originally and it failed; now it gets past that point).

But then, the text-mode dialogs switch into a weird mode -
instead of showing proper text, they show a text tag that looks
like a key into a message lookup system.  E.g. the first one
shows in the dialog title as ":CHOOSE_PARTITION_ROOT_TITLE:".

I could figure out what the dialogs meant from the tag text, so I
kept going.  It prepared the Linux partition apparently OK, asked
me which set of packages to install (I chose the full set), then
began to install.  But it quickly failed, saying:

   The following error has occurred
   /mnt/col/install/RPMS/DEV-3.4-1.i386.rpm
   File not found

This doesn't make sense.  On the FAT16 partition, the file
mentioned is definitely there, looking at it with Windows
Explorer, e.g. the file H:\col\install\RPMS\DEV-3.4-1.i386.rpm
exists.  Linux is apparently assigning /mnt to that partition to
mount it for installing, so it looks like the path is OK.

What can I do at this point to install it?

I had read about the default consoles, and tried Alt-Function
keys to see if it might tell me anything.

The Alt-F8 console shows some debug messages, one says it's doing
Do_Find_File_To_Pkg, then two Do_Lookup_Trans_Tbl statements to
try and find trans.tbl in the RPMS directory, the last of which
fails and triggers the dialog.

Back in Windows, I looked at the disk - there is no trans.tbl
file in the RPMS directory or anywhere else.

Also, the Alt-F6 console shows some other information; the last
line says "Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)".

Any ideas?

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