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Subject: kernel-package: Despite passing --initrd option, no initrd-image was
built.
Package: kernel-package
Version: 10.068
Severity: important
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Hi,
I did the following in /usr/src.
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.21.1.tar.bz2
tar xjvf linux-2.6.21.1.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.21.1
cp /boot/config-2.6.20-1-686 .
make menuconfig --> load /usr/src/config-2.6.20-1-686 ; enable DEBUG for
HDI devices
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image --revision=pm.0 --rootcmd sudo
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.21.1_pm.0_i386.deb
sudo shutdown -r now
The linux kernel was displayed in GRUB, but did not fully boot, because
it could not access the root filesystem. Looking in /boot/grub/menu.lst
the entries for 2.6.21.1 did not have an initrd line and I did not find
a corresponding image under /boot/ .
Doing
sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.21.1
and editing /boot/grub/menu.lst gave me a bootable linux kernel.
Did I do something wrong? Thanks.
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system
for Deb
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for
Debian
ii file 4.20-5 Determines file type using
"magic"
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.1.1-15 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler] 4.0.3-7 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.1-21 The GNU C compiler
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization
utilities
ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the
"make" util
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.8 manage translated Debconf
template
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting
file co
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.5-4 GNU C Library: Development
Librari
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Hi,
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:35:39 +0200, Paul Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi. Am Freitag, den 04.05.2007, 18:05 -0500 schrieb Manoj Srivastava:
>>
>> The problem, from what I can tell, is that the kernel package does
>> not think it was created with --initrd. This is a non-initrd image,
>> for instance:
> [...]
>> Try yourself with: head -n 50
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.21.1_pm.1.postinst | grep initrd
>>
>> And see if it was indeed compiled without initrd support.
> Your guess was correct, it was compiled without initrd support.
Thanks for helping diagnose the problem. Since this is not a
bug in kernel-package, I am now closing the report.
manoj
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