Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2005-05-25, Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. I don't know much about this, but perhaps it's as simple as "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img".

Re: [SOLVED] Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules > install" > > > (after > > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There

Re: Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread John W Mislan
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en | Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched k

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > > (after > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > > fundamental > > issue here, however, regard

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing that you do have initrd enabled in the kernel? > > Block Devices -> RAM Disk Support -> Initial RAM disk (initrd) > > phil Actually, I didn't. I never had it turned on. But I went ahead and got back to the debien kernel-source package and

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. > So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am > guessing it i

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: Well, I am not bypassing anything. I am using make-kpkg. I use this guide http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en Sorry. Your mention of grabbing a kernel off of kernel.org is what threw me off. I had thought you had to use the debian-patched kernel

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tra

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Marty wrote: apt-get install make-kpkg;man make-kpkg I tried to fetch that package, with this result: hhs48:~# apt-get install make-kpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package make-kpkg I am tracking unstable through mirr

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules install" > (after > compiling the modules using "make modules." There is a more > fundamental > issue here, however, regarding custom kernels in a debian system, > which I > address below. > > > > >

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Marty
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: --- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both vmlinuz links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is not goi

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package > version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both > vmlinuz > links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is > not going through.

Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-24 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi all, I am trying to make my custom-compiled 2.6.11 kernel (source package version 2.6.11-5) bootable. For lilo and since 2.6, i have both vmlinuz links and initrd images for my kernels. For some reason, this one is not going through. I usually end up building the initrd images myself (I bet som