[wellylug] new hard disk problems

[David Antliff]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Enkidu wrote:

> >0. backup your system in case I'm wrong!!!
> >1. su root
> >2. apt-get kernel-source-2.6.x (where x is the version
> >you have now).
> >3. cd /usr/src && tar -xvjf
> >kernel-source-2.6.x.tar.bz2
> >4. cd kernel-source-2.6.x.tar.bz2 && cp
> >/boot/config-2.6.x .config
> >5. make menuconfig (then change the VIA device from m
> >to y, exit and save configuration)
> >6. If 5 doesn't work, do 'make oldconfig' and
> >following that, edit the .config file manually to
> >replace =m with =y.
> >7. make-kpkg kernel_image
> >8. cd .. # to /usr/src
> >9. You should see a .deb package here.  Install using
> >dpkg -i packagename.deb and follow the instructions.
> >10. Reboot.  Tada!
> >
> You'd probably need the kernel headers too, unless you had them
> already.

The 'kernel headers' are part of the kernel source tarball.