On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ben Eisenbraun
Robert Campbell at Queens pointed out to me that the "machine_type" script bundled with PHENIX doesn't understand the new version 3.0 linux kernel strings.
He tweaked his local copy for testing purposes on a Debian testing machine, and just forcing the 3.0 version to use the 2.6 binaries worked:
case "$KERNEL" in 2.4.*) kernel_version=2.4 ;; 2.6.*) kernel_version=2.6 ;; 3.0.*) kernel_version=2.6 ;; *) kernel_version="$KERNEL" ;; esac
I haven't tested it myself. It looks like Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.10, both targeted for November releases, will be using the new 3.0 kernel.
I didn't realize there was a kernel 3.0 yet; since it appears to be a direct continuation of the 2.6 series, I suspect it won't be difficult to support. Thanks for the patch - I will add it to the installers, with the caveat that we won't actually be testing Phenix on kernel 3 until whenever Fedora 16 comes out. -Nat