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make-kpkg, initrd and kernel source questions
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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-08-02, 2:51 am |
| Have a few questions about make-kpkg (just compiled my first kernel with
make-kpkg, its neater in a way than the usual source compile) :
1. I had some problems with booting (VFS panic with a failed SCSI hard disk
kmod modprobe block-major-8) until I realized that the
updated /boot/grub/menu.lst did not contain an initrd line. Is it possible
to force make-kpkg to issue a mkinitrd and add that line in the update-grub
stage ?
2. Is it possible / advisable to use kernel sources downloaded from
www.kernel.org (as against kernel-source packages) with make-kpkg ?
Thanks.
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| Andreas Janssen 2005-08-02, 7:47 am |
| Hello
Madhusudan Singh (<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> ) wrote:
> Have a few questions about make-kpkg (just compiled my first kernel
> with make-kpkg, its neater in a way than the usual source compile) :
>
> 1. I had some problems with booting (VFS panic with a failed SCSI hard
> disk kmod modprobe block-major-8) until I realized that the
> updated /boot/grub/menu.lst did not contain an initrd line. Is it
> possible to force make-kpkg to issue a mkinitrd and add that line in
> the update-grub stage ?
apt-get install initrd-tools
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
should do the trick. If the initrd is in the kernel-image.deb, it will
be copied to the right place, and update-grub will find it
automatically.
> 2. Is it possible / advisable to use kernel sources downloaded from
> www.kernel.org (as against kernel-source packages) with make-kpkg ?
Possible, no problems so far for me.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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