NVIDIA Driver Installation

**Krogen** · 06-02-2005, 04:19 AM

Ok. Here's what I did.... Again....

Downloaded the latest 2.6.11.11 linux kernel from http://www.kernel.org/. Extracted it (but not with tar in shell since this isn't a gzip... Or something). No errors, no warnings.

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.11 /usr/src/linux
cp /boot/config-2.6.11 /usr/src/linux/.config
cd linux
make defconfig
make menuconfig (checked support for raiserfs, scsi, unchecked Firewire - don't need it, unchecked telephony, checked the riva nvidia drivers and the default vga ones)
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --append-to-version=-310505 kernel_image (very few warnings, no errors)
cd ..
dpkg -i (the name of the deb in the /usr/src/).deb (it prompts me that it already exsists and I shouldn't do it if I don't know what I'm doing... Pressing Y anyways.
same grub as posted already... not modified (everything's the same)

REBOOT

Choosing the new option in the grub

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Audit(-----some---numbers---here): initialized
Kernel panic -not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

Should I format this partition and try installing Knoppix again and then immidietely after that, install the new Kernel? Or is the above fixable? Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!

**Markus** · 06-02-2005, 09:23 PM

Well, the point with copying the config from boot is so you can "make oldconfig" to get the same config that your running kernel has. Change defconfig to oldconfig and see if it helps.
Before installing the kernel you can remove the old one: apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.6.11.11-310505
or remove with: dpkg -P kernel-image-2.6.11.11-310505

I don't think a reinstall is needed just for kernel compiling. If you want to install again, install Kanotix instead with which you can even use Kano's script for nvidia. It's a better hd install than knoppix anyway.

BTW: With tar you unpack with:
tar xvf xxx.tar
tar xvzf xxx.tar.gz
tar xvjf xxx.tar.bz2

**Krogen** · 06-02-2005, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Markus

Well, the point with copying the config from boot is so you can "make oldconfig" to get the same config that your running kernel has. Change defconfig to oldconfig and see if it helps.
Before installing the kernel you can remove the old one: apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.6.11.11-310505
or remove with: dpkg -P kernel-image-2.6.11.11-310505

I don't think a reinstall is needed just for kernel compiling. If you want to install again, install Kanotix instead with which you can even use Kano's script for nvidia. It's a better hd install than knoppix anyway.

BTW: With tar you unpack with:
tar xvf xxx.tar
tar xvzf xxx.tar.gz
tar xvjf xxx.tar.bz2

Thanks for the tips.

I can't get Kanotix to work on my PC. It keeps freezing for whatever reason (my guess is: hardware reasons). I checked the image I downloaded (with checksum) and it was ok, burned the cds twice and still now working.

**Markus** · 06-03-2005, 08:21 PM

Where did kanotix freeze?
What was the last message displayed?
Did you ask on kanotix forum or #kanotix ?

**Krogen** · 06-03-2005, 11:00 PM

This might be a whole another topic but it freezes exactly after the boot. If it doesn't, I can do things for couple of minutes and then, whatever I'm doing, I can't keep doing it because of the freeze. I tried ALT-F2 (ctrl-alt-f2? forgot which) into the shell but that didn't do it.

I tried downloading a new image yesterday since I deleted my old one. After I finished downloading it (with Azureus Bittorrent) I checksumed it and the checksum prompted me that the image doesn't match the md5 file. So I did a force recheck in Azureus and, I guess, it saw an error in the image and started downloading a part of it again. 5 minutes or so passed and it finished it. Checksumed it again and it gave me a bad image error. So I went to Azureus again and did a force recheck. Again, it started downloading THE SAME part of the iso image! WTF? I tried doing the same thing about 3-4 times and the checksum kept giving me errors. Azureus kept downloading the file again and again!

Could it be someone sending me wrong packets and corrupting the iso?

**Harry Kuhman** · 06-03-2005, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by Krogen

Could it be someone sending me wrong packets and corrupting the iso?

That not only seems unlikely, but it seems extremely unlikely that when you downloaded again someone again managed to send you bad packets a second time.

I would suggest that you try a different client against the dtata that you already have. I used Bittorrent 4.0.1 (there is a newer version out now) on Thursday morning and got the full thing in less than 2 hours. The md5 sum checked fine. Version 4 has some nice improvements over version 3. Maybe a different client will not be the answer, but it should be an easy test to know for sure. Bittorrent should be able to pick up nicely with what you have and fix it.

**Krogen** · 06-04-2005, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

Originally Posted by Krogen

Could it be someone sending me wrong packets and corrupting the iso?

That not only seems unlikely, but it seems extremely unlikely that when you downloaded again someone again managed to send you bad packets a second time.

I would suggest that you try a different client against the dtata that you already have. I used Bittorrent 4.0.1 (there is a newer version out now) on Thursday morning and got the full thing in less than 2 hours. The md5 sum checked fine. Version 4 has some nice improvements over version 3. Maybe a different client will not be the answer, but it should be an easy test to know for sure. Bittorrent should be able to pick up nicely with what you have and fix it.

What I did:

Downloaded FlashGet. Downloaded a FlashGet plugin for Firefox. Found couple of servers with the latest version of Kanotix. Started downloading from one. Added a couple of alternate servers.

Downloading for the whole time at about the maximum speed. Can't get any faster. (150KB/s.... VERY SLOW FOR A 3 megabit connection!).

Will try burning it in a sec.

**Krogen** · 06-04-2005, 03:29 AM

Checked with checksum. OK. Burned.

No freezes....

Everything works.

#sudo kanotix-installer

modifying partitions and configuring...

installing

changing grubs config

booting to kanotix... works! I mean, not really, freezes after about a minute of use. I'll try posting this in the kanotix forum and see what they come up with.

Thanks everyone.