2.6.16-Beyond1, ArchCK, mkinitramfs update.

McQueen · 2006-04-21 04:41:12

Yes, I noticed the kernel left testing so I installed today, followed the wiki instructions on grub entry, and everything worked on the first boot flawlessly. Great job!

brotheris · 2006-04-24 07:40:14

"Upgraded" from ArchCK to Beyond. Updated my menu.lst and everything is working beautifuly
Thanks for all involved!

Chman · 2006-04-24 11:16:53

Switching from CK to Beyond too, works great with ATI drivers.

Just one weird problem : in console mode the text cursor (carret ?) is invisible, which is pretty annoying in vi

funkyou · 2006-04-24 15:06:54

Switched from arch standard kernel to beyond...
Everything is working fine

However, i get one message at startup which i do not understand:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k
Initital ramdisk loading modules...
mknod: /dev/null/: File exists

So, what does mknod want from me? And why does it try to
recreate /dev/null?

Fackamato · 2006-04-24 16:42:23

Switched to beyond too, working fine so far. However, I'm not noticing any difference. Are there any benchmarks I could run to compare kernels?

_Gandalf_ · 2006-04-24 17:16:45

Guys, there isn't any real changes from Archck to beyond in the concept of patches except some (nothing to do with benchmarks) patches like the vmware workaround or the way to switch from ck to cks by just editing the config... the real difference is that beyond is kernel 2.6.16 and above( hopefully ! ) which is a work of iphitus and Tiger, while archck stoped developement at 2.6.15 kernel...

whargoul · 2006-04-24 18:12:39

I was yawning about that the kernel didn't wanted to boot, "That iphitus can't do anything right"... until I looked at my 'menu.lst', and saw that I missed 'root=/devhda1'. :oops:

Eliatamby · 2006-04-27 15:00:51

Hey, I've never used archck or nitro, so I am wondering what exactly -beyond contains. Also, what's the difference between bootsplash and fbsplah?

iphitus · 2006-04-27 23:00:52

http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond.html

contains a list of things contained.

fbsplash is a newer setup and is actully maintained unlike bootsplash.

James

Eliatamby · 2006-04-28 01:53:41

Thanks James

so if I install from the Arch repo, i take it I'm getting fbsplash?

EDIT: Ok, I read mkinitramfs and understand I have to install this separately from community.

How then is the framebuffer set if fbsplash is not installed? Can it be turned off? And can I deactivate other parts of the patchset?

Thanks.

iphitus · 2006-04-28 04:14:16

Eliatamby wrote:

Thanks James
so if I install from the Arch repo, i take it I'm getting fbsplash?
EDIT: Ok, I read mkinitramfs and understand I have to install this separately from community.
How then is the framebuffer set if fbsplash is not installed? Can it be turned off? And can I deactivate other parts of the patchset?
Thanks.

mkinitramfs is in [extra]

vesafb/framebuffer can be configured in mkinitramfs.conf

what do you want to 'deactivate'?

Eliatamby · 2006-04-28 05:51:54

You're right, sorry, I meant I read the makeinitramfs wiki and from there found out that I get fbsplash from extra

I was trying to change the buffer in the makeinitramfs.conf, but the only thing I could find was " fbsplash= " with the preceeding comment saying that this was for setting the buffer of

I didn't see a vesab option in mkinitramfs.conf at all.

What I wish to not use is the suspend update.

iphitus · 2006-04-28 10:00:24

unless you configure your system to do so, it isnt using suspend.

Mr Green · 2006-04-28 19:39:58

I'm like thinking of trying beyond .....

Is/Does Nvidia work & will it break vmware ? (vmware fix I know but...)

shbang · 2006-04-29 01:38:46

I had to reinstall nvidia, vmware-workstation, and ndiswrapper. I don't remember having to reinstall anything else - probably depends on what modules you have. I'm not sure if you still have to edit vmware-config.pl - the change needed to vmware-config.pl used to be on iphitus website but I don't find it now. If you have a problem with vmware-config.pl just edit it (comment out the return as indicated):

. 'not have the same address space size as your running '
. 'kernel.' . "nn", 0);
}
# return '';
}
}

iphitus · 2006-04-29 03:42:30

thanks, I'll re-add the vmware fix. it shouldnt be needed for the packages I have released in extra though.

James

MartinZ · 2006-04-29 17:35:19

Is there any reason why beyond2-1 keeps in testing? I guess it should be removed from there in favor of beyond2-2 from extra.

mic64 · 2006-04-30 00:02:09

Hi

running beyond now for 2 days. Everything is ok,
but this kernel is not so responsive like the archck.
You could run 2-3 programs with each one eating 100% cpu power
and the system was stil responsive under archck.
I can´t do that with beyond. Everything start to lag.

firedance · 2006-05-04 13:15:57

Chman wrote:

Switching from CK to Beyond too, works great with ATI drivers.
Just one weird problem : in console mode the text cursor (carret ?) is invisible, which is pretty annoying in vi

I have the same problem, does anybody have some kind of solution to this?

sweiss · 2006-05-20 09:28:10

I've no idea what happened, but I just upgraded to beyond4 and was able to boot it, at last.

Thanks.

freex · 2006-05-20 17:01:50

gensplash bug in beyond4? kernelpanic...could not find init...
made fresh mkinitramfs with blank fbsplash_theme and my system booted fine!

napoleon · 2006-05-26 22:37:56

Am trying to recompile the latest beyond kernel because of the new gcc and glibc from testing but it complains i need the "config-x86_64.patch". Where can i find it? Its not in the sources folder.
Thanks

neotuli · 2006-05-26 22:42:41

napoleon wrote:

Am trying to recompile the latest beyond kernel because of the new gcc and glibc from testing but it complains i need the "config-x86_64.patch". Where can i find it? Its not in the sources folder.
Thanks

It's there, make sure your cvs is pulled up to date.

iphitus · 2006-05-26 23:59:44

freex wrote:

gensplash bug in beyond4? kernelpanic...could not find init...
made fresh mkinitramfs with blank fbsplash_theme and my system booted fine!

it's a wierd bug. give mkinitcpio a shot instead of mkinitramfs,
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … mkinitcpio

it should work quite a bit better.. and will boot.

as for the aforementioned ATI problems, give the latest update a shot, its got a lot of bugfixes.

James

Corvin · 2006-05-28 05:50:24

Hi, from 2 last versions (after upgrade) I can't boot into beyond , it runs splash screen and writes "initialising kernel" and hangs nothing happens. Hardware is HP nx 6110 with Centrino, any help?

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