Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Colin
Doofus wrote: > My question now is: which is the better kernel build method, initrd > where everything can be just modularised and there's not much else to > worry about, or compiling the necessary core drivers into the kernel and > loading other modules on-the-fly as needed (which is what I've alw

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread anoop aryal
On Thursday 02 March 2006 03:41 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > On 3/2/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anoop aryal wrote: > > >On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>I hope someone can help me out here. > > >>I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread David Baron
Do you make an initrd with your kernel? If you are using resierfile, then you probably need one. Use mkinitrd so make it as yaird (newer stuff) will often not work right. Otherwize, try to compile in everything you need for your root file system. Yaird has options that will give you a good start

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Doofus wrote: Colin wrote: Doofus wrote: Now I'm bamboozled. If I compile a kernel using the identical .config file that was used to compile the working and running kernel and it won't boot properly, then my powers of fault finding dry up. I'd be mightily grateful if anyone can give me any

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 3/2/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anoop aryal wrote: > > >On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I hope someone can help me out here. > >>I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.4 kernels which I > >>understood and was comfortable with. >

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Doofus
Colin wrote: Doofus wrote: Now I'm bamboozled. If I compile a kernel using the identical .config file that was used to compile the working and running kernel and it won't boot properly, then my powers of fault finding dry up. I'd be mightily grateful if anyone can give me any ideas as to whe

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-01 Thread Colin
Doofus wrote: > Now I'm bamboozled. If I compile a kernel using the identical .config > file that was used to compile the working and running kernel and it > won't boot properly, then my powers of fault finding dry up. I'd be > mightily grateful if anyone can give me any ideas as to where the > pro

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-01 Thread Doofus
anoop aryal wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help me out here. I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.4 kernels which I understood and was comfortable with. I've recently installed sarge over the net and chose kernel 2.6 to initial

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-01 Thread anoop aryal
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: > Hi, > > I hope someone can help me out here. > I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.4 kernels which I > understood and was comfortable with. > > I've recently installed sarge over the net and chose kernel 2.6 to > initially run with.

2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-01 Thread Doofus
Hi, I hope someone can help me out here. I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.4 kernels which I understood and was comfortable with. I've recently installed sarge over the net and chose kernel 2.6 to initially run with. Everything worked well. I then got the 2.6 source from my de