I haven't had the same experience as David. Sorry to hear you are struggling, David. I'm running Debian Sid, and I've been using their kernel for some months now. This package from their repository has worked very well for me: Package: linux-image-2.6-rt-stable-686 Best, Renick On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > Tapani Sysimetsä wrote: > >> I learnt that there is a bunch of good rt-kernels for Debian in >> Pengutronix repos. Thanks to youki on 64 Studio forum for the tip: > [snips] > >> They should work at least in Lenny, Sid and AVLinux 3.0. And why not in >> Squeeze too. >> >> I use currently 2.6.31.6-rt19-1-amd64 in Lenny, rolls just fine. > They may be good rt-kernels but I couldn't get any to work. I tried a > selection of four different ones (including 2.6.31.6-rt19-686). > > The 2.6.31 series would just hang after finding my USB flash card > reader. The 2.6.29 selection got beyond that, then announced that it > didn't get a response from /dev/hda1 so it couldn't boot and suggested I > try /dev/sda1. I tried changing the grub command line to use /dev/sda1, > which got it to boot, but then it failed to mount my home partition on > /dev/hda3. I guess it was looking for /dev/sda3. > > Currently running 2.6.26-2-686, non-RT, on Debian Lenny. > > The search for conveniently addable RT kernels continues, I guess.