Kernel 2.6

[Jerônimo Bezerra]

Hello All,

I am Jeronimo and I work at one University in Brazil and here we have a
S/390. We installed the Debian Woody 3.0 some time ago, and now we have
make a another installation with Sarge 3.1, and if possible, using a
kernel 2.6. Is it possible?

I downloaded the images from
ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic and when I start the Profile, appers kernel 2.4.27. The installer recognize my NIC LCS, but it doesn't work, I don't know how yet, but in console, I write "ifconfig eth0" and receive a error that says "Device not found" and assing the IP Address to interface sit0.

What can I do?

Thank You

Jeronimo Bezerra

[Bastian Blank]

Post by Jerônimo Bezerra
I am Jeronimo and I work at one University in Brazil and here we have a
S/390. We installed the Debian Woody 3.0 some time ago, and now we have
make a another installation with Sarge 3.1, and if possible, using a
kernel 2.6. Is it possible?

You can't install sarge with 2.6 kernel, but you can install it
after the installation succedes, but there exists no hardware
configuration. This means, you have to manualy populate /etc/modutils
with the correct command line for the dasd modules (dasd is not longer
compiled in) and the network device configuarion in the sysfs.

Post by Jerônimo Bezerra
I downloaded the images from
ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic and when I start the Profile, appers kernel 2.4.27. The installer recognize my NIC LCS, but it doesn't work, I don't know how yet, but in console, I write "ifconfig eth0" and receive a error that says "Device not found" and assing the IP Address to interface sit0.

We never had the chance to test a LCS NIC as all new machines have qeth.

Bastian