Björn Esser wrote: > Am 15.03.2012 00:07, schrieb Benoît Knecht: > > Can't you just grab and unpack one of the prebuilt debian kernels > > from the archive? qemubuilder can load an initrd image, so even if > > ipv6 and ext3 are not built-in, it should work just fine. > > The prebuild kernels don't ship any initrd and I'm not sure how to build > a suitable one on a different arch. Maybe there's some guide avail. for > this.
Well, that might not be the fastest way, but the following works just fine to generate the initrd; all you need is debootstrap, binfmt-support and qemu-user-static installed (I will assume you want and armel kernel/initrd in this example, but the same should apply for other architectures): debootstrap --arch=armel --foreign --variant=minbase sid rootfs-armel-sid cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static rootfs-armel-sid/usr/bin/ chroot rootfs-armel-sid/ debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage echo "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main" >> etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update (You may want to mount /dev, /dev/pts /proc and /sys at this point.) apt-get install linux-image-versatile (And umount anything you mounted here.) exit You should now have and initrd image in rootfs-armel-sid/boot/. > > If you don't have other architectures available, you could just have > > your package uploaded and see if it fails to build. > > I'm no dd so where can I upload and try to build it, but > mentors.debian.net and wait until someone ITS it? Yes, that's what I meant: have someone upload it for you, and then see if anything fails. I don't think it's worth the trouble setting up qemu images for every architecture supported by debian until you know there's a problem, and have an idea of its nature. It might not even be able to do anything about it if the problem is uninstallable dependencies. > > If it does, you'll have access to the full log, and then you can ask > > on one of the dedicated mailing lists; I'm sure there are developers > > with access to those machines who'd be happy to help. > > Where / How to get in touch with those developers? For armel, <debian-...@lists.debian.org>. I'm sure the other architectures have similar mailing lists. Cheers, -- Benoît Knecht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120316113125.ga6...@marvin.lan