Slackware :: Essentials - Selecting A Kernel
Jan 13, 2011
Slackware 13.1 is installed using the installer defaults and I have do nothing else, that I know of, other than installing wireless. (wicd) (I originally installed lilo to the MBR which did not include LMDE in the menu so I re-installed LMDE and Grub included Windows, Slackware and LMDE in the boot menu, as I wanted.) The book, in section 4.2 talks about 'Selecting a Kernel' I don't understand the 'why' of this section. Slackware is working, right? 'It talks about compiling a Kernal from source' - do I need to do this? Why?
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Sep 20, 2010
Debian 60 (squeeze, testing) 64-bit
The window for selecting kernels at startup is NOT clear.
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Feb 5, 2010
I have Ubuntu Karmic 64-bit dual boot with Windows 7. On Windows 7 i have microsoft security essentials for antivirus/antispyware. Recently I noticed GRUB boot failures after having booted to windows but couldn't see why. Just to be clear, I am using GRUB2. Anyway, the failure is as follows:
PC is powered on, goes on towards displaying GRUB menu but it only shows GRUB Loading and restarts, so the list doesn't show.and the restart keeps happening.Now the workaround so far is to boot using a live cd and fix GRUB according to the instructions posted here:
https:[url]....And after fixing GRUB2, i either have to boot into the desktop or recovery mode, to update GRUB2 menu once again using
Code:
update-grub
command and then everything works.
Now coming to what i think is the cause of the problem. Everytime MSE (microsoft security essentials) is updated be it standalone, or over internet, including failed updates, the boot failure happens.I've googled microsoft and ubuntu forums but couldn't find a fix.
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Feb 4, 2011
i am facing another problem with Squid Server The Ip's that pass through Squid are unable to update microsoft security Essentials Windows 7 O.S they are maintaining in their PC.
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May 29, 2011
In order to get my Ubuntu system up and running on the Internet I need to install Sakis3g, and when installing, the system does not pick up ./Configure. My first thought was that the Build Essentials were not present but turns out that they are already installed, so now I'm at a dead end as I cannot finish my install. Has anyone else had any problems similar to this one?
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Nov 27, 2010
I just got this used computer with Lucid Puppy 5.1 on it, it is an old IBM desktop from way back. Anyway i want to install Windows Live Essentials or at least some kind of MSN on it for IM chat. Is this possible ? You may email me at [URL].. or write back to me here.
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Jun 20, 2010
I installed a fresh copy of Slackware 13.1 (stable) on one of my media servers and I am experiencing something strange.... When I power up the machine, I see the kernel booting, no errors, until it gets to the point where it says:
And then randomly freeze there.... Well the machine is not totally frozen because the cursor still blinks. But it will never continue... Like I said, this happens on a random basis... After a reset, it might go through or simply stall at the same spot.
I remember after installing Slack 13.1, I rebooted the machine but forgot to remove the DVD from the player, so the install routine started up, and froze at the same point when it was loading the kernel for the setup programs...
My mobo is a MSI k9N platinum.
I never had this problem before.... (well I never used 13.1 before). Since I got this machine, I used slack 12.2 and slack 13-current with success.
This problem makes the machine extremely unreliable because I intent to use it as a backup and media server, so chances I will WOL the machine and use it remotely... if that happens.
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Jan 20, 2010
I have one machine where I have several versions installed on different partitions. The base partition (/dev/hda1) is Slack 12.1. On a spare partition (/dev/hdc4) I had installed Slackware64-current. Last week I slackpkg upgraded and installed the 2.6.32.2 kernel, and now that partition will not boot. I know that with the new kernels the hd* designation has been removed, and have already redone that fstab (accessing it from a different boot) to reflect the sd*. Here is the slack64 section of my lilo.conf:
Code:
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /other/spare4/boot/vmlinuz
[code]....
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Jan 13, 2011
it's possible to compile the 2.6.37 kernel patched with the autogroup patch on a Slackware 13.1 system running 2.6.33.4-smp with 2.6.33.4 headers? I just compiled and installed the 2.6.37-autogroup kernel from AUR on my ARCH setup and I like it especially when using firefox with lots of tabs open and other background apps also running. I did notice a speed and smothness difference in my ARCH testing setup with this kernel patch and I can get same results in 13.1??
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Jun 23, 2011
I'm trying to bring my Slackware system back to life as my XP HDD is dying... I've got everything working except for my audio. I got a new motherboard (ASRock P43DE3) and it has a VIA VT1708S as the onboard audio. Is there any way I can get this working without rebuilding the kernel?
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Jan 5, 2010
I updated my kernel in slackware current but can't install lilo, when i was with my old kernel it gave an error about not finding the sda drives (they were named hda before the upgrade).I booted into the slackware 13.0 dvd and modified fstab and lilo.conf replacing hda with sda but lilo still gives an error of not finding sda drives.How can i install lilo so i can boot into my sistem??
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Aug 21, 2010
I'm currently trying to install unRaid on Slackware following this tutorial :[URL].. I'm new to Linux and after many hours, i finally managed to build the new kernel for unRAID (2.6.32.9). But audio on HDMI port doesn't work I tried alsaconf without success. HDMI sound works when i boot into the old kernel.
My codecs are :
Code:
root@unraid:~# cat /proc/asound/Intel/code* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC888
Codec: Intel G45 DEVIBX
Code:
lspci -v:
[Code]...
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Jun 22, 2011
Fresh and Full install: Slackware 13.37 64-bit x86_64. What is the correct procedure to switch from huge kernel to 2.6.38.4 kernel?
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Feb 4, 2011
I need to build openSuSE with the bare essentials + X. I want no-fluff + KDE 3.5-Desktop (no extras).
Is there a way to do this manually ? Any other options ? Widdling away at RPMs just got me a broken VM so I'll skip trying that again.
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Mar 24, 2011
I would like to recompile my kernel to add few modules to it but I would like to keep my current configuration so as not to have troubles with missing drivers for my hardware and stuff.
How do I do that?
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Jul 22, 2010
I am trying to setup Slacware 13.1 x86_64 to a encrypted partition. I used the README_CRYPT.TXT howto : [URL] At the step when I create an initrd.gz I get this error: Quote: ERROR: No /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-smp kernel modules tree found for kernel "2.6.33.4-smp"
I tried to look into the directory and there was only modules under 2.6.44.3. So I tried to change the command into: Quote: mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r cryptroot -C /dev/sda2
This command was successful, but I don't know if this is alright. I made the changes in lilo.conf, add initrd = initrd.gz. This is all on unencrypted /boot partition. The boot=/dev/sda1 I also set for the unencrypted boot partition. When I boot the system I get a kernel panic:
[Code]....
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Oct 30, 2010
Is there some way to add a kernel to an iso?
Or update the one on the iso?
I am trying to install Slackware(x32) 13.1.
EDIT: forgot to mention, I'm on windows 7. no access to linux outside of a vm.
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Apr 26, 2011
When I open the nautilus and press shift+down key i cannot select icons. Similarly, if i open some text editor (gedit) if i press shift+down key, i cannot select text. Shift+up left and right keys are normal. Only shift+down key is having problem.
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Dec 8, 2010
Dan Rosenberg has issued another Linux Kernel Exploit with PoC described in LWN [URL] I have tested that this exploit is not working on -Current (custom kernel, 2.6.36.1), which is good sign that Slackware is already immune of those problems.
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Oct 13, 2010
I've just upgraded my slackware 13.1 box to the latest stable kernel. Really impressed by the improvement on boot time and graphic card driver for my old Intel chipset. So I intend to use this newly built kernel to another computer of mine, which is running slackware 13.1 too. I want to keep this computer as clean as possible by installing no build tools, experimenting stuff, etc..., just binary packages for a neat, minimal box. So I'm thinking of copy the new kernel files (System.map, vmlinuz, config) to /boot as directed here in the slackbook.
But as I also notice that there are new files installed under /lib/modules/linux-2.6.35.7 (the new kernel), I'm afraid that I'm missing some other files of the kernel installed somewhere in the system. So are these files all the components of the new kernel, or do I need to look at some other places to grab the whole cake?
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May 2, 2011
I installed Slackware 13.37 today, fresh install. I added the generic 2.6.37.6 kernel to lilo, rebooted, and ran with it. I transferred some stuff to my hard drive and installed a few things, reboot again and now I can't boot up with my kernel of choice (but I can with the huge kernel). It stops during the boot process and says
Code:
[1.785238] No filesystem could mount root, tried: romfs
[1.785342] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)
[1.785417] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #2
After that is a line that says Call Trace and several lines after that with stuff that makes no sense to me and that I don't feel like typing out, but will if it is relevant.
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May 16, 2011
Just a quick question: can I safely install the 2.6.38.4 kernel in /testing and not screw up any other part of my Slackware64 13.37 installation? Should I install the kernel headers or leave the default ones since that's what glibc was compiled against? Obviously I'd need to update lilo.conf as well as run lilo itself.The reason I ask is because I'm having suspend/resume problems on my laptop (worked fine with 13.1) and I wanted to see if a kernel driver was the issue.
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Aug 25, 2009
When I select restart from the shut down menu sometimes instead of shutting the system down it insteads just ends my session and logs me out (which leads me to believe perhaps my session is crashing when it tries to reboot?
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Aug 2, 2011
After a fresh install of fedora 15 gnome 3 I need to download some packages so I can start working with it. but when I try to get them using yum or packagekit, servers are very slow, so i need to find a fast server for my connection like I used to find in ubuntu. there was an ability in package manager to ping all the servers and choose the best one, and I cant find such thing neither in yum nor in packagekit. Is there anyway to do that in fedora 15 ?!
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Apr 9, 2009
I'm monitoring 20 asterisk servers and I've developed a small php utility that displays me their errors when they happen.Currently I'm using the something like this:tail -5000 /var/log/asterisk/full | egrep -i "ERROR|WARNING" > errors.logThe problem with this is that some servers are getting more traffic then others resulting that on one box 5000 lines might last 5 hours and on another 5 minutes. And as such what I see on the screen might be outdated by a few hours or scrolls too fast for me to see.I'd like to know what would be the most efficient command to extract only the last 60 minutes and perform my egrep on that. Cron is setup every minute.Here's a sample of the log format:
Code:
[Apr 9 08:21:38] VERBOSE[13499] logger.c: Found request for channel [1239279644.1537]
[Apr 9 08:21:38] VERBOSE[13499] logger.c: CTI Asked for EXECAPP on channel [Zap/16-1],
[code]...
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May 27, 2010
Dell optiplex 740 running slackware64-13.0 2.6.34 #1 SMP Mon May 17 13:50:21 EDT 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux downloaded install DVD using Eric's mirror script burnt two dvds
I get the screen asking if I need to enter anything press enter the dots run across the bottom of the screen then jump to the top and machine dies after line "Booting kernel" even the 'elephants can't get it to move' power off is only option other dvd's are bootable including ones burnt on this machine after the 13.1 dvd
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Apr 12, 2010
running current on a Lenovo S10
the b43 driver craps out every few minutes.
so i decided to try the sta driver.
i downloaded the slackbuild but it crashes with the following see attached
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May 12, 2010
Does slackware 13 have any dependencies on a modular kernel? I am going to make the kernel without modules and wanted to know if this will not work or if it will be painful and still work.
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Mar 12, 2010
I'm tryin to run this script to make me a aufs/squashfs/lzma patched kernel and I keep getting this
Code:
root@slackware:/usr/src# ./build.kernel
* Unpacking archives
aufs
lzma457
squashfs3.4
[Code]...
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Apr 17, 2011
People, there is a tutorial to upgrade the kernel 2.6.38.3(compiling tutorial included =D) to Slackware 13.1??And, this upgrade generate a better performance on system??
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