Re: AC1.0 Kernel Sources?

[Sergey Tikhonov <tsv solvo ru>]

rajiv prasad charter net wrote:

> Hi folks:
>
> First of all, many thanks to the AlphaCore 1.0 developers -- fantastic work -- Jay was right -- it was worth the wait. :-)
>
> I installed AC1.0 on my SX164 last week, and things are generally fine.  The next step I had in mind was compiling a new kernel for my SX164 to replace the generic 2.6.11-1.1180axp_FC3 that is in AC1.0.  But I have not been able to find kernel sources on the AC1.0 ISOs.  Where are they?
>  
ftp://alphalinux.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.1180axp_FC3.src.rpm

There are other modified source packages there.

> I also tried compiling vanilla 2.4.9 and 2.4.11.11 from kernel.org.  They compile ok (there was a gcc/ld internal error at one place during the compile (make boot), if I continued make from that point on, the build finished fine), but I have not been able to boot any of these -- I get a "cannot open initial console" and then the system hangs.
>  
You have to compile your kernel with initrd support and create initital 
ramdisk using mkinitrd. The FC3 uses only "udev" to manage /dev entries. 
mkinitrd will put necessary "udev" files to initial ramdisk. You will 
have to add "initrd=" option to your boot command. For more information 
please refer to home page to "udev".

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv solvo ru