MAS kernel patch compilation

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• MAS OS Configuration email template
• MAS PC specifications email template

OS Installation

- Boot from the 6.06 LTS server disk - Default install. Reformat boot partition. Make data partition!

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion emacs21

Sources list

- If you get trouble from apt-get because it can't/won't read the Ubuntu disk, or you don't have it anymore, like this:

Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Ubuntu-Server 6.06.1 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060807.1)'

then remove (comment) the line

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 6.06.1 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060807.1)]/ dapper main restricted

from /etc/apt/sources.list and do

apt-get sudo update

Kernel patch + compile

- Get linux sources - Apply bigphys patch (don't add the -bigphys in the Makefile, do it in the make-kpkg!) - Follow the instructions here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

apt-get update
apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2

tar xjf linux-2.6.18.1.tar.bz2
ln -s linux-2.6.18.1 linux
cd /usr/src/linux

bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.19-rc4.bz2 | patch -p1 --dry-run
bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.19-rc4.bz2 | patch -p1 

cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
make menuconfig

make-kpkg clean
sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-bigphys kernel_image kernel_headers

(Can't use fakeroot in this last step, since the .deb are written to /usr/src.)

Binary kernel package installation

The .deb's that come out of the compilation above are incomplete, be we install them anyway. They are missing arch/i386/Makefile.cpu, and Modules.symvers. They might be missing other things too, but MAS really misses those ones. These have been put into a patch; which must be applied at the end.

The steps are:

1. Install the kernel packages

New boot options are: "bigphysarea=8192 acpi=off"

Without acpi=off, loading the DSP driver will crash the system really badly. This has been observed in at least 2 machines.

After the new kernel

For Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, add repository "Community maintained".