>who needs an initramfs? Not me ;)
But seeing this discussion, I've finally realised that I'm a dumbass. For ages now I've been manually copying the kernel, the system.map and the config around my filesystem. I've always wondered how on earth people manage who do a lot of kernel testing without exploding due to frustration. Now I know... :) But out of curiosity, and to recap: I can set the version, either in the kernel config with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or by using a file localversion containing a version string? Does this then create a bzImage-versionstring file, and make install copies this to /boot/kernel-versionstring (and system.map and .config respectably)? Also how exactly do you then need to build the kernel. Does a simple 'make' suffice? Tom
