Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd
On Sat, Jan 16 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: If this is the latest version of make-kpkg, did you cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ ? Uh, no, I didn't. I have now. And dkpg-reconfigure has now created the initrd image, and grub has found it. Thanks! (I appreciate the help, but where should I have looked? My googling did not turn up that solution! And neither did 'man make-kpkg', although I see now there's some obtuse language in there which is perhaps meant to convey the same information.) This was dicussed on the list. My reference is: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/38247e9a7f3561ea/6fe4f2d08bc209a1?hl=iaq=group:linux.debian.user+insubject:kernel-package#6fe4f2d08bc209a1 and you're right, that post does not show up by googling initrd or kernel. So much for google... ,[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) line 132/382 ] | --initrd | If make-kpkg is generating a kernel-image package, arrange to | convey to the hook scripts run from the post installation | maintainer scripts that this image requires an initrd, and that | the initrd generation hook scripts should not short circuit | early. Without this option, the example initramfs hook scripts | bundled in with kernel-package will take no action on | installation. The same effect can be achieved by setting the | environment variable INITRD to any non empty value. Please note -* | that unless there are hook scripts in /etc/kernel or added into-* | the hook script parameter of /etc/kernel-img.conf. no initrd -* | will be created (the bundled in example scripts are just examples -* | -- user action is required before anything happens). -* ` I guess this could be made more, umm, insistent, somehow. manoj -- There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over. --Larry Wall in 1992aug19.041614.6...@netlabs.com Manoj Srivastava sriva...@acm.org http://www.golden-gryphon.com/ 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87635gpunz@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com
Kernel compile and install does not create initrd
I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed it, using 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30_sage.1.0_amd64.deb'. I had thought that would be enough to create the initrd necessary to boot, but there is no initrd-image in /boot corresponding to the kernel, and (of course) none listed in /boot/grub/menu.lst for this kernel's entry. So (again of course) there's a kernel panic when I attempt to boot using this kernel. I tried dpkg-reconfigure on the kernel, but no joy. initramfs and initrd support are enabled in my kernel config. So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm not seeing it, and I've read the relevant sections of the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook.) Thanks Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd
Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed it, using 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30_sage.1.0_amd64.deb'. I had thought that would be enough to create the initrd necessary to boot, but there is no initrd-image in /boot corresponding to the kernel, and (of course) none listed in /boot/grub/menu.lst for this kernel's entry. So (again of course) there's a kernel panic when I attempt to boot using this kernel. I tried dpkg-reconfigure on the kernel, but no joy. initramfs and initrd support are enabled in my kernel config. So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm not seeing it, and I've read the relevant sections of the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook.) If this is the latest version of make-kpkg, did you cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ ? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed it, using 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30_sage.1.0_amd64.deb'. I had thought that would be enough to create the initrd necessary to boot, but there is no initrd-image in /boot corresponding to the kernel, and (of course) none listed in /boot/grub/menu.lst for this kernel's entry. So (again of course) there's a kernel panic when I attempt to boot using this kernel. I tried dpkg-reconfigure on the kernel, but no joy. initramfs and initrd support are enabled in my kernel config. So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm not seeing it, and I've read the relevant sections of the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook.) If this is the latest version of make-kpkg, did you cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ ? Uh, no, I didn't. I have now. And dkpg-reconfigure has now created the initrd image, and grub has found it. Thanks! (I appreciate the help, but where should I have looked? My googling did not turn up that solution! And neither did 'man make-kpkg', although I see now there's some obtuse language in there which is perhaps meant to convey the same information.) Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed it, using 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30_sage.1.0_amd64.deb'. I had thought that would be enough to create the initrd necessary to boot, but there is no initrd-image in /boot corresponding to the kernel, and (of course) none listed in /boot/grub/menu.lst for this kernel's entry. So (again of course) there's a kernel panic when I attempt to boot using this kernel. I tried dpkg-reconfigure on the kernel, but no joy. initramfs and initrd support are enabled in my kernel config. So can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm not seeing it, and I've read the relevant sections of the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook.) If this is the latest version of make-kpkg, did you cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ ? Uh, no, I didn't. I have now. And dkpg-reconfigure has now created the initrd image, and grub has found it. Thanks! (I appreciate the help, but where should I have looked? My googling did not turn up that solution! And neither did 'man make-kpkg', although I see now there's some obtuse language in there which is perhaps meant to convey the same information.) This was dicussed on the list. My reference is: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/38247e9a7f3561ea/6fe4f2d08bc209a1?hl=iaq=group:linux.debian.user+insubject:kernel-package#6fe4f2d08bc209a1 and you're right, that post does not show up by googling initrd or kernel. So much for google... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
