On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to > build > > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > > > > Thanks for getting back to me, but do i make the line look like this : > > > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image --initrd** > > > > and then execute : > > > > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.29_custom.1.0_i386.deb > > > > cd /boot/ > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29 2.6.29 > > True, that will not necessitate a recompile. But, the next time you > build your kernel, just use > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > Also, to easily make an initramfs, I use update-initramfs as follows: > > sudo update-initramfs -c -v 2.6.29 > > HTH. > Sorry - i get error when i run : sudo update-initramfs -c -v 2.6.29 Can you tell me what i exactly need to run - just getting a little lost. 1. make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image 2. mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29 2.6.29 is that it ???
