Hyperion Entertainment Message Boards

sailorMH wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 8:28 am Partman hangs with error Cannot load modules.

sailorMH wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:08 am Continue without modules doesn't work with new installer. But you help me - I put the modules to initrg.gz only (which is not works). I will try add them to .iso also.

xeno74 wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 1:32 pm Hi SailorMH,

We always compile the most things in the kernel so we don't have many modules in the kernel modules directory. It could be that Debian needs the LVM and RAID support (CONFIG_MD and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM/dm-mod) as modules. We compiled these in the kernel directly. CONFIG_DM_RAID and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD aren't set. Have you seen which modules are missing? I could compile them for the next kernel release.

Thanks,
Christian

sailorMH wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 8:00 pm Tested 5.7-rc5 with
old MintPPC+Debian8 and Fedora
all works, thanks! I will post pictures later.

• X5000 and X1000: 802.1d Ethernet Bridging (CONFIG_BRIDGE)
• X5000 and X1000: Device mapper support (BLK_DEV_DM) as module (dm-mod)
• X5000 and X1000: RAID support (BLK_DEV_MD) as module (md-mod)
• X5000 and X1000: RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target (DM_RAID) as modules
• X5000 and X1000: Crypt target support (DM_CRYPT) as module
• X5000 and X1000: Snapshot target (DM_SNAPSHOT) as module

sailorMH wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:08 amContinue without modules doesn't work with new installer. But you help me - I put the modules to initrg.gz only (which is not works). I will try add them to .iso also.

ide-pci-generic
ide-cd_mod
via82cxxx
raid1
sd_mod
scsi_mod
libata
ata_generic
pata_sil
pata_sil680
pata_via
sata_sil
sata_via
dm-mod
cdrom
isofs
crc-t10dif
mbcache
jbd
jbd2
affs
ext2
ext3
ext4
3c59x
pcspkr
drm
drm_kms_helper
ttm
radeon

xeno74 wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 9:19 am Hi All,

Here is the RC5-2 of kernel 5.7 for testing.

Hypex wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 10:43 am Hello. Just out of interest. How are you building these kernels? How long does it take? Cross compilation on fast PC?

1. Install the toolchain with the following commands:
   

   Code: Select all

   sudo apt-get install gcc-powerpc-linux-gnu

   Code: Select all

   sudo apt-get install build-essential

   Code: Select all

   sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

   Code: Select all

   sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools

2. Compile a kernel for the X1000 (-j4 = Compiling with 4 threads):
   

   Code: Select all

   make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc oldconfig

   Code: Select all

   make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc vmlinux

   Code: Select all

   make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc zImage

   Code: Select all

   gzip -9 vmlinux.strip

   Code: Select all

   mv vmlinux.strip.gz zImage

   Code: Select all

   make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules

   Code: Select all

   # make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules_install

3. Compile a kernel for the X5000 (-j4 = Compiling with 4 threads):
   

   Code: Select all

   make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc oldconfig

   Code: Select all

   make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc uImage

   Code: Select all

   make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules

   Code: Select all

   # make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules_install

Hypex wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 10:31 am So you were able to modify and rebuild the initrd.gz okay? If it's of any help, I needed to use the following list of modules, when I built the last XE Jessie installer.

xeno74 wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 12:43 pm Yes, that's correct. It takes about 10 minutes to compile a kernel. I use ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS x86_64 (GCC 7.4.0) for cross compiling.