Questions about new linux kernel and SafeOff

[musa]

I am currently uploading the compressed Fedora 17 Beta file and when it is uploaded the link will be posted on the A-EON website in the file download area. The compressed image is just over 1GB.

Pat has also confirmed that Daz's latest kernel (vmlinux-3.5.7) works with the Fedora image file.

Trevor

Was it possible that you could upload the original img file? It is very difficult to install the system correctly when it is not in img format. Fedora hangs during login and I think it was due to the system not being installed without error. So it would be good to get img file.
Thank you in advance

[trevordick]

Was it possible that you could upload the original img file? It is very difficult to install the system correctly when it is not in img format. Fedora hangs during login and I think it was due to the system not being installed without error. So it would be good to get img file.
Thank you in advance

Strange, you should be able to decompress the archive OK. I know we had some problems with the original img.xy file which gave problems at the login stage. Let me make sure we have uploaded the correct one to the download link.

Trevor

[trevordick]

Oooops! Sorry, the older compressed image file was uploaded in error.

The correct file is fedora17x.img.xz

I will get that uploaded to the A-EON server. Should be online sometime tomorrow.

Trevor

[musa]

Oooops! Sorry, the older compressed image file was uploaded in error.

The correct file is fedora17x.img.xz

I will get that uploaded to the A-EON server. Should be online sometime tomorrow.

Trevor

Thank you Trevor. I appreciate that.

[musa]

Have now downloaded fedora17x.img.xz. Unfortunately, the same thing happens again
Everything stops at "Started Login Service (ok)"
Everything works well until that
Could it be an interaction with that I use the 3.5.7 kernel to install?

[trevordick]

Have now downloaded fedora17x.img.xz. Unfortunately, the same thing happens again
Everything stops at "Started Login Service (ok)"
Everything works well until that
Could it be an interaction with that I use the 3.5.7 kernel to install?

I will check with my Fedora 17 setup.

Trevor

[mechanic]

Where can I obtain the .config file used for the 3.5.7 kernel build?

[daz]

Where can I obtain the .config file used for the 3.5.7 kernel build?

I've been including it in the kernel image for a while now, probably only on the kernels Trevor has been testing, sorry.

I think the following will extract it:
cat /proc/ikconfig/config

I haven't tried this though.

I'll investigate later, and find out.

Regards
Darren

[marcus]

I think the following will extract it:
cat /proc/ikconfig/config

Change that to:
zcat /proc/config.gz
and it works. This is how I got the base config for my own kernel build.

[mechanic]

Thanks daz, marcus.

I got kind of side tracked before trying this and managed to wipe out my Linux setup. DOH!

However, it gave me opportunity to do a new install. This time I decided on Debian wheezy Beta 4 net install.
I used the 3.5.7 kernel to do the install and it worked perfect, it even used the 3.2.0-4 modules when it came time to reboot into the system, after which I copied the 3.5.7 modules over from a USB stick. And,,,it all worked with only the 6850 in the X1000.

I'm also happy to report, after some user setup, that the SBLive! (0220) is working great.

I'll get back to messing about with the kernel in a few days, thanks again guys.