Debian Custom Kernel HOWTO (was: Bulding kernels "the Debian way" -- trials and tribulations)

[Ryan Rix]

Hi,

Well, even after getting it completely working (yes, it was the initrd, or 
lackthereof!) and rebuilding ndiswrapper and all other needed modules, 
hibernate still does not function. hibernate complains about nvidia if I'm 
running X at the time (i'm running the nividia kernel module for compiz) and 
when done from terminal without x running and the module unlaoded, it drops 
to a second terminal, throws some text too fast to see, and returns to he 
active console it spits out:
[  362.751579] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 
00:03:25:48:ba:df
[  362.752016] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: highdma pwrctl timirq lnktim desc-v3
[  362.873209] eth0: no link during initialization.
[  362.886616] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[  375.605459] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
 
So, I guess hibernate is just beyond hope.. :(

--
Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog

"See, he's more dangerous during the off season"




On Tue October 21 2008 03:50:24 pm Ryan Rix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are the full steps to build a kernel with tuxonice:
> root at wanton:~#aptitude update && aptitude install linux-source-2.6.26
> linux-patch-tuxonice
> That's one line, if it has a break in it...
> root at wanton:~#cd /usr/src/
> root at wanton:/usr/src#tar xvf linux-source-2.6.26.tar.bz2
> root at wanton:/usr/src#cd linux-source-2.6.26/
> root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26#cp /boot/config-2.6.26-1-686
> ./.config root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26#
> ../kernel-patches/all/apply/tuxonice
> root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26# make menuconfig
> attached my .config btw, more like the distro's
> root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26# make-kpkg kernel-image
> waiting...waiting...
> still compiling...
> the distro's config takes much longer than mine....
> *yawn...*
> root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26# rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.26/
> This is from a previous kernel. dpkg whines elsewise.
> root at wanton:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26#dpkg -i
> ../linux-image-2.6.26_2.6.26-10.00.Custom_i386.deb then I log out and
> reboot...
>
> Then unix.ko complains about `disagrees about version of symbol
> struct_module` which google says happens if you compile a module against a
> different kernel than the one you are booting on. the rm -rf
> /lib/modules/2.6.26 should prevent this from happening, imo, but what do I
> know... FWIW, it's not just Unix.ko doing this, it's a number of other
> modules that whiz past too fast to see but I can tell they are complaining
> about it.
>
> I just noticed that I am compiling without initrd, which grub is expecting
> (it may be parsing an old initrd!) I'm recompiling with --initrd in the
> make-kpkg kernel-image... I'll see you folks in an hour.
>
> Does PLUGAZ have a wiki? I may stick this in there, for others. I know at
> least one other person who has been in a situation like this.
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Ryan Rix
> TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
>
> My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain: IBM
>
> > From: Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com>
> >
> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:49:33
> > To: <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> > Subject: Re: Bulding kernels "the Debian way" -- trials and tribulations
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >  
> >
> > >Also aptitude uses something called module-assistant, and it can be
> > > torqued but of course you don't have a good boot. # aptitude install
> > > module-assistant
> > ># module-assistant prepare
> >
> >  
> > Yeah, I have m-a installed and use it often enough :-)
> >  
> > Ok, so I built the kernel (a full report tonight, it's a draft in kmail
> > right now)
> > it boots a little farther with all of the modules installed (it acutally
> > makes it to init! YAY!), but it hangs while trying to load net/unix.ko...
> > saying it's not a valid module format; I don't know about the other
> > modules. and vga=791 still doesn't function correctly. I can post a full
> > log of the boot hang, along with full directions of what I did to
> > install, for posterity. Also my .config is attached. But, yeah, it's a
> > kmail draft sitting on my laptop at home ;-)
> > ~Ryan


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