Kernel 2.6.18 and mkinitcpio coming soon

paulicat · 2006-08-28 15:22:50

ok, so from testing all I need is mkinitcpio right?

phrakture · 2006-08-28 15:25:46

No, you need mkinitcpio, klibc-extras and ummm... that _may_ be it, but it might be safe to try klibc and klibc-udev as well.

paulicat · 2006-08-28 15:29:56

Ok, thanks, all upgraded, I'll update later when I reboot...

Curious though, how come klibc and klibc-udev aren't listed as dependencies of mkinitcpio??

phrakture · 2006-08-28 15:35:22

They are, but you already have the dependancies satisfied (klibc and klibc-udev are installed, just old versions)

paulicat · 2006-08-28 15:36:45

Ah, makes sense
Sorry for the confusion there...I'll let you know if all is well later tonight.

nightfrost · 2006-08-28 19:21:38

I did quick test and it failed again (with all relevant packages from testing), but I've been a bit stressed out and in a hurry lately so I can't give more information. I'll test it again as soon as I can and let you guys know. Thanks.

phrakture · 2006-08-28 19:59:13

Did you actually rebuild the image? The image is not rebuilt upon installing these new packages. See the wiki for how to regenerate the image. You can also always just "pacman -S kernel26" and say "Y".

nightfrost · 2006-08-28 20:12:25

I made sure to rebuild the image, and I tried with fallback image as well (I've read the wiki on it). The error message was different but I didn't write it down. Like I said, though, I've been really stressing through this and might have missed some crucial step. I'll retry it very soon and report back...

nightfrost · 2006-08-28 20:51:17

Like I thought. My silly mistake somewhere along the road. mkinitcpio from testing works just fine. Many thanks

paulicat · 2006-08-29 12:28:58

I did the same as nightfrost, I didn't rebuild the image...
I was reading your post phrakture and tried to just reinstall the kernel, I got this error message during the install:
/lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 18: /usr/lib/klibc/bin/replace: No such file or directory
mknod: missing operand after `b'
Special files require major and minor device numbers.
Try `mknod --help' for more information.

It repeated 4 times but it still said it was successful.
I can't reboot right now, but can you let me know whats up with that error message?
Thanks!

tpowa · 2006-08-29 12:49:25

you need the other stuff from testing too:
klibc, klibc-extras, mkinitcpio

paulicat · 2006-08-29 12:53:51

Yup, didn't have klibc-extras installed...I'll update after I reboot later today...

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It works perfectly! Great job.
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FrankTM · 2006-09-01 11:44:58

Works like a charm for me:
tested rc4 and rc5 with fglrx packages

no problems so far

soloport · 2006-09-03 16:13:37

Is depmod necessary after running mkinitcpio? From kernel26 post-install:
KERNEL_VERSION=2.6.17-ARCH
/sbin/mkinitcpio -k $KERNEL_VERSION -g /boot/kernel26.img
#mkinitrd ...
depmod -v $KERNEL_VERSION > /dev/null 2>&1

Or is depmod there because post-install also runs mkinitrd?

mouse256 · 2006-09-04 09:38:07

I don't know if this is the best place to report, I'm still using kernel 2.6.17.
I'm a software raid0 user, and since mkinitcpio I get the following notice after the loading of udev:

/bin/mknod: '/dev/md0' : File exists

No big deal, everything is working perfectly, it's a very minor bug

FrankTM · 2006-09-05 09:10:23

thx again for the fast work with rc6

first boot gave a bit of noise on the alsa restores as it couldnt find some sound levels
thats fine after one /etc/rc.d/alsa restart

hmmm... don't seem to have direct rendering with fglrx
i'm going to try to find that out then

pressh · 2006-09-20 08:08:13

phrakture wrote:

This is an announcement for those of you still using mkinitrd to boot your machines.
For some time now there has been a notice upon kernel install that mkinitrd will be replaced by mkinitcpio once the 2.6.18 series is released. That time is quickly approaching. To anyone who has not at least tried mkinitcpio (/boot/kernel26.img) is advised to try it and report any issues on the bug tracker before this goes live.
Thank you

2.6.18 is released now ! So if you have not done so, it's time to migrate to mkinitcpio now. The 2.6.18 kernel will soon show up on arch mirrors

s26c.sayan · 2007-04-23 14:25:42

Is there an installation CD yet which contains these latest upgrades by default?

TY.

phrakture · 2007-04-23 15:31:25

s26c.sayan wrote:

Is there an installation CD yet which contains these latest upgrades by default?
TY.

Yes, this is a very old announcement. The latest ISO contains the 2.6.20 kernel, not the 2.6.18 kernel that this announcement is for.

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