Tag: kernel
Compiling a new kernel module for VirtualBox
I had installed VirtualBox a while ago on my laptop running my Slackware64 test environment, so I could experiment with the program a bit. Then I forgot all about it.
Today, I upgraded to the latest set of slackware64-current packages, including the new 2.6.32.7 kernel and when I rebooted to that new kernel, I saw [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2010 under Slackware, Software.
Tags: kernel, vbox, virtualbox
Comments: 7
Robby’s libata switchover howto
The new kernels in Slackware (post 13.0) have one important change compared to previous kernels. This change will affect anyone with Slackware installed on an IDE disk (like /dev/hda) who wants to upgrade to the latest state of affairs.
The new kernels exclusively use “libata”. The last bits of the old IDE/ATA subsystem have finally been [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2010 under Slackware.
Tags: ata, ide, kernel, libata, lilo
Comments: 5
Bleeding at the edges again?
… Ok, ok, it is not so bad actually! Au contraire!
Slackware Linux development made a big leap today, when Pat Volkerding updated the distro’s “vital organs” of kernel, glibc and gcc. The “dull” phase of the slackware-current development cycle is over hopefully, and it’s back to the bleeding edge.
To be fair, gcc 4.4.2 has been [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2010 under Me, Slackware.
Tags: efi, gcc, glibc, gpt, kernel, multilib, x86_64
Comments: 3
initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
Lilo, the 2.6.30.x kernel and Slackware on x86_64
Although Slackware -current still has a 2.6.29.x kernel, I am sure that people are experimenting with 2.6.30 kernels. In some cases, and only on Slackware for the x86_64 architecture so far, this may lead to boot problems. There is a problem that manifests itself when you are using [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under Slackware.
Tags: initramfs, initrd, kernel, lilo
Comments: 1
Leaps and bounds
Updates to Slackware’s development tree
Today, a lot of changes found their way into slackware-current. Slackware’s development speed shows leaps and bounds The newest set of updates is nearly as long as last month when Slackware added KDE4 to mainstream. The kernel packages have now arrived at 2.6.29.1 which is the most recent kernel [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2009 under Slackware, Software.
Tags: easter, egg, kde, kernel, tuz
Comments: 6
Massive updates in slackware-current
Today, Pat Volkerding published a massive amount of package updates to the slackware-current tree. The entry in the Slackware ChangeLog.txt measures more than 200 lines, and is probably the largest update to the development tree ever.
Many of the core packages have received an version upgrade, but those changes may not be immediately visible to the [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2009 under Slackware.
Tags: current, ext4, gcc, glibc, installer, kde, kernel, xfce
Comments: 19