[vox-tech] Kernel upgrade from Sarge (fresh install) 2.4.25 -> 2.6.3 or 5

[Ken Bloom]

On 2004.05.02 00:32, Rob Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 18:37:59PM -0500, me@heyjay.com wrote:
> > > > The steps I made in building my new kernel are as follows:
> > > >
> > > > apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev make gcc g++ patch
> > > > apt-get install bin86 kernel-package module-init-tools
> > > > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.3
> > >
> > > all this stuff is irrelevent.
> >
> > irrelevent because it's obvious or it doesn't effect building the
> kernel?
> > If the later, every howto or article about building a kernel on deb has
> the
> > reader install some combo of those before they build the kernel
> 
> Irrelevent to the kernel panic problem. It's necessary stuff for
> building the kernel, but if you were missing something here, you'd see
> the problem long before you were trying to actually boot your new
> kernel.
> 
> I think Jonathan pretty much covered the reasons you got your panic...
> I've had the same issues before, and it was lack of IDE device and
> filesystem support in my kernel. (well, actually lack of a proper
> initrd, but that's easily fixed by building those things into your
> kernel)

I think I also recall reading that before you generate the initrd, you need  
to add the appropriate module names (and also the names of those modules'  
dependancies) to a file somewhere (/etc/modules?), because the initrd  
doesn't have module dependancy information available so early in bootup,  
and the kernel can't guess what is needed that early in the bootup process.  
Am I correct?

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