[parisc-linux] upgrading kernel

[Andrew Shugg]

Peter Lavender said:
> Thanks... this outlines what to do with a custom kernel.. I was
> thinking there might be a debian way... like with kernel-packages (I
> just reading up about it now for my i386 based system).

You can build your new kernel the Debian way with make-kpkg - the
kernel-package system is available for the hppa architecture.  I don't
know if it works yet in all of Debian's architectures (ie knows how to
configure all the boot loaders) but I think it knows about PALO so hppa
should be fine.

> The kernel on the 715/64 is from last year sometime ago... I can get
> the kernel version with uname becuase it seg faults.

You might be able to find out with 'file /vmlinux' ... or 'dmesg|head'
or 'head /var/log/dmesg' ...

Andrew.

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