[64studio-devel] Re: My experiences with 0.9

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Jacco,

|--==> Jacco Kramer writes:

  JK> The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.1) does not exactly match the
  JK> current compiler (gcc 4.0).  The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects
  JK> kernel
  JK> modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the
  JK> compiler used to build the running kernel.

That's a severe bug, I'm going to fix it right now. Thanks for the report.

  JK> Needless to say it errored out on me when It tried to load the module
  JK> anyway.

  JK> 3) So, I figured I'd recompile the kernel, so I downloaded the sources and
  JK> patched it for realtime support but neither "make xconfig" nor "make
  JK> menuconfig" work properly.

The gcc version used  to compile the  kernel is the one in Debian/sid,
so the simplest   way is to  install it  rather  than recompiling  the
kernel.

  JK> I decided to copy the old config (/boot/config-2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8),
  JK> use that as .config. It seems to have worked well but because of my limited
  JK> knowledge of Grub I cannot yet get it to work properly (Kernel panic - not
  JK> syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown block(0,0)). Will continue
  JK> trying a little more though.

You probably miss an initrd image.

Ciao,

Free