I am in the middle of trying to figure out how the installation of allstar can be put on anyone of the following distros that are available to me in my VPS Debian 7 *Preferred install if possible* Centos 7 Ubuntu 14.04LTS Ubuntu 14.10 I have tried many different methods including replacing zaptel with Dahdi not sure i did things right or not but still no luck with the installation here is what I found out so far my Linode has custom Kernal headers this is very bad for any type of installation like this so here is the tutorial i found to change the linux headers. https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/run-a-dis... My current installation is Debian 7 But i have tried all of the above listed distributions with no success.. So here so far is my command line step by step on this machine roughly First step was to change Linux Headers to generic headers 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get upgrade --show-upgraded 3. apt-get install linux-image-amd64 4. mkdir /boot/grub 5. apt-get install grub-legacy 6. grub-set-default 1 (Generates /boot/grub/menu.lst ) 7. update-grub 8. nano /boot/grub/menu.lst Edited some timer to 10 and updated kopt= kopt=root=/dev/xvda console=hvc0 ro quiet Double check groot=(hd0) 9. update-grub 10. In the Linode Manager, edit your Linode’s configuration profile to use either *pv-grub-x86_32* or *pv-grub-x86_64* as the kernel, depending on the version of Debian you have deployed (32-bit or 64-bit). (My host only offers x86_64 11. reboot from dashboard after adjusting some minor settings in the profile. 12. In Console uname -a 13. Response from uname -a Linux (none) 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ok now we first installed asterisk just regular using apt-get install asterisk-dahdi Not exactly sure what it did things at this point have now become sketchy because i am unsure where the config files for allstar should be also i am use to the centos based acid and so I think i am getting confused some where in the installation but here is my history so far on this machine.. 1 apt-get update 2 apt-cache search dahdi 3 apt-get install asterisk-dahdi 4 cd /tmp 5 wget http://dl.allstarlink.org/installcd/zsync-0.6.1.tar.bz2 6 tar -jxvf zsync-0.6.1.tar.bz2 7 cd zsync-0.6.1 8 ./configure 9 make 10 make install 11 cd /etc/init.d 12 wget http://dl.allstarlink.org/installcd/rc.updatenodelist 13 mv rc.updatenodelist updatenodelist 14 chmod 755 updatenodelist 15 ./updatenodelist & 16 nano /etc/init.d/asterisk 17 ./updatenodelist & 18 ./asterisk start 19 nano /etc/init.d/asterisk 20 ./asterisk start 21 ./asterisk restart 22 ./updatenodelist & 23 ./asterisk restart 24 ./updatenodelist & 25 ls 26 cd /etc/asterisk 27 nano rpt.conf 28 nodesetup.sh 29 ls 30 nano /var/lib/asterisk/keys/allstar.pub 31 clear 32 apt-get install 33 apt-get install curl 34 cd /usr/src 35 wget http://x.allstarlink.org/svn-trunk.tar.gz -O- | tar xzv 36 mv trunk astsrc 37 cd astsrc 38 make upgrade-acid 39 menuselect.makeopts 40 service asterisk restart 41 cd .. 42 apt-get install git-core 43 git clone https://github.com/KD8EYF/squeezeterisk.git 44 ./squeezeterisk/scripts/allstar-install.sh 45 apt-get update 46 apt-get upgrade --show-upgraded 47 apt-get install linux-image-amd64 48 mkdir /boot/grub 49 apt-get install grub-legacy 50 grub-set-default 1 51 update-grub 52 nano /boot/grub/menu.lst 53 nano /boot/grub/menu.lst 54 update-grub 55 history --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another thought on installation was to take the current Acid Distro and install it on linode.. So here is my steps so far to this one however I will tell you that for some reason we are stuck on a grub boot loader and not getting anywhere at the moment with the installation of acid. https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/running-a... Ok I followed the directions and wound up with the below attached below the line the kernal in my Virtualized vm shows this.. The attachment is a screen shot of the vm information what is the thoughts of being able to make this work really would like this one to be successful if possible.. ----------------------------------------------------------------- GNU GRUB version 0.97 (1048576K lower / 0K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grubdom> Possible commands are: background blocklist boot bootp border cat chainloader clear cmp color configfile debug dhcp find foreground fstest geometry halt help hide ifconfig initrd kernel lock makeactive map module modulenounzip pager par tnew parttype password pause print rarp read reboot root rootnoverify savedefau lt shade splashimage terminal terminfo tftpserver unhide viewport grubdom> boot Error 8: Kernel must be loaded before booting grubdom> Hello, It looks like your Linode is loading GRUB, the bootloader, but doesn't know about any distributions it can boot. Could you provide the contents of the following file in the image you uploaded to your Linode? /boot/grub/menu.lst Thanks in advance! Regards, Jon F. Linode Support # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-402.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-402.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-402.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-274.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-274.el5.img Hello there, Lets see if your kernel exists. Please boot into Rescue Mode, then mount the affected disk [0][1] - after you have done so provide the output of the following: ls /media/xvda/boot/ Thanks in advance! Regards, Jonathan [0] https://www.linode.com/docs/troubleshooting/rescue-and-rebuild#booting-into-... [1] https://www.linode.com/docs/troubleshooting/rescue-and-rebuild#mounting-disk... oot@hvc0:~# ls /media/xvda/boot/ ls: cannot access /media/xvda/boot/: No such file or directory nano /etc/fstab shows this # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Lines containing "Added by Finnix" are managed by rebuildfstab. /dev/xvdh1 /media/xvdh1 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 # (Finnix 109$ /dev/xvda /media/xvda ext4 noauto 0 0 # Added by Fi$ /dev/xvdb /media/xvdb ext4 noauto 0 0 # Added by Fi$ On the Virtual machine i imported the information over on has this in the fstab nano /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 I realized a big problem going to redo the swap and try again look at ext4 it should be ext3 Is your /media/xvda/boot/ showing your kernel? Were you able to adjust your fstab? root@hvc0:/media/xvda# ls lost+found sda1 root@hvc0:/media/xvda# ls lost+found sda1 root@hvc0:/media/xvda# cd sda1 root@hvc0:/media/xvda/sda1# ls bin dev halt lib media mnt proc sbin srv tmp var boot etc home lost+found misc opt root selinux sys usr root@hvc0:/media/xvda/sda1# Hi there, I'm sorry to hear you're having issues! Unfortunately, Linode does not provide support for software installation, configuration, or troubleshooting. In this case, we always recommend you reach out to either the developer that you are working with, or our fantastic user community over either our forums or IRC. Our community forum can be found at the following url: https://forum.linode.com/ We apologize for any inconvenience this issue has caused. If there is anything else we can do for you, please let us know. Regards, Joel Ok I will be eventually posting this thorough out some forums but is there a Repository for installing Allstars custom software that would probably make things easier if there was repos and what in Allstar is hanging up the installation.. Loren Tedford (KC9ZHV) Email: lorentedford@gmail.com Email: lorentedford@live.com Email: lorentedford@aol.com Email: LorenCS@Ltcraft.net Email: lorentedford@yahoo.com Email: loren@lorentedford.com <loren@lorentedford.com> Email: loren@richlandcountycomputers.com Email: loren@newwavesucks.com Phone: http://www.lorentedford.com http://www.Ltcraft.net <http://www.ltcraft.net/> http://www.richlandcountycomputers.com http://kc9zhv.lorentedford.com http://newwavesucks.com