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author: einar
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date: 2006-09-03 15:57:07+00:00
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title: New kernel
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[code]lb@hardin:~$ uname -a
Linux hardin 2.6.17-emission7 [/code]

(the rest of the output was truncated)
Thanks to some folks over at the [Ubuntu Web Forums](http://www.ubuntuforums.org) I've been working into rolling in my own kernel trying to solve the fact that when I'm shutting down I always  get drives in an unclean state (actually only the root partition), giving rise to several errors. I wasn't content with a vanilla kernel so I decided to use the [emission patchset](http://www.evolution-mission.org). This enables extra functions like a framebuffer splash (pity about vesafb-tng not working on my video card), suspend2 (an enhanced suspend-to-disk functionality), low latency patches and so on.

I have to say that Debian's kernel-package is wonderful, in the sense that it automates kernel packaging up to the point of being brain dead almost, and it also automatically compiles out-of-tree modules that have been installed using the *-kernel-source packages. In any case, I'm very happy of the result so far, with the only problem being the inability of setting 16:10 resolutions on the framebuffer. If anyone knows how, please leave a comment.

All is well, however the drives **still** aren't unmounted cleanly. Is there a way you can remount a partition read-only just the moment before shutting down?