[ec2-beta] Need linux kernel headers for 2.6.27-13-xen

[Chuck Short]

Hi Collin:

Unfortunately the headers and not available in the ubuntu-ec2 ppa 
anymore. However I will make them available tomorrow. 
http://people.ubuntu.com/~chucks/ec2-headers.

With regards to the beta2 images. I am working on the final touches of 
the beta2 images. You can keep track of the progress at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-on-ec2. We are also looking at adding 
new features that were not available in the first beta release.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask me. I can be found on 
irc network freenode under the nickname of zul.


Regards
chuck

Eric Hammond wrote:
> Collin:
>
> You can't upgrade kernels on EC2 instances.  You can run new instances
> with different kernels, but only if those kernels are already published
> by Amazon or another official partner like Canonical.
>
> For your particular situation, you may need to wait until beta2 comes
> out with the newer kernel unless Chuck can add the older 2.6.27-13-xen
> kernel source to the PPA retroactively.
>
> A this point, beta1 has enough known problems, it may not be worth
> trying to spend too much time on things that don't work.  Either wait to
> test beta2 or use the stable community Ubuntu AMIs I publish on
> http://alestic.com
>
> The images on http://alestic.com are completely Ubuntu except for using
> Amazon's 2.6.21 kernel which amazingly doesn't cause many problems other
> than disabling AppArmor and forcing you to use version 1 when creating
> XFS file systems on Intrepid (works fine with Hardy which is what many
> production systems use).
>
> The kernel source is also available for Amazon's kernels, though you may
> want to switch questions about this to the non-beta group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu
>
> Looking forward to beta2 and the eventual official release,
> --
> Eric Hammond
> ehammond at thinksome.com
>
>
>
> Collin Hayden wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using the ec2 64-bit image and running the 2.6.27-13-xen kernel, my
>> problem is that I am trying to get an afs module to load so that I can
>> use the openafs-client.  In order to do this, I need the
>> linux-headers-2.6.27-13-xen but cannot find them anywhere.  It's not in
>> ppa repo nor on google.  I tried upgrading the kernel to 2.6.27-19-xen
>> because the headers are available on ppa repo for this version of
>> kernel.  The catch 22 is that I can't seem to change the mapping or
>> don't understand how to boot the new kernel.... isn't this something
>> that ec2 does it a particular manner?  I am stuck here.  Any ideas on
>> what to do next?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Collin
>>
>>
>>     
>
>