Kernel Compilation Woes [was Re: iPod Isssues]

[Ylan Segal]

Brian McKee wrote:
> Eeeek - this is getting complicated.

Eeeek indeed.

> I can tell you this much - my problems (that went away after disabling
> EFI) occurred
> even with USB 1

OK... so the problem can be present with or without EFI on USB 1 or 2.

> 
> Before current HAL/udev different distros did different things.
> Mandrake used udev and supermount.  Others used automount and udev,
> with or without supermount thrown in there too, and I'm sure others
> did something else entirely.
> 
> There are quite a few changes between late 2.6 kernels and 2.4
> Getting a 2.4 kernel to work in Ubuntu properly I think would be a
> major effort....

Oh... I forgot to mention that. I did find a 2.4 kernel in the dapper
repository (kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686) and installed it. When I try to
boot on it I get a kernel panic, and when the kernel panics, so do I :)

I don't think going back to 2.4 is the way either, it's like sliming
against the flow, opening Pandora's box, etc. I am for the time being
not going to pursue the 2.4 kernel further.

Currently, I have one more thing to try: I found in the kernel-package
documentation that if you are building for 386 you also need the bin86
package which I didn't have. So, I installed it and made a new, clean
kernel compile with the exact config I copied from my current kernel
(kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686) with the only exception of removing EFI
support.

The kernel compiled, but I didn't have time to test it. Will do so tonight.

Keep tuned...

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