Michael Olds wrote: > > Russell, Torsten, et al: > > This is the "method" I have written up in my notes for a Debian Style Kernel > Rebuild. My feeling after all this is that this is something that as hair > raising as it might seem for beginners, should be one of the first things we > learn, not to be delayed. > > It would be good if a step by step like this were made for recovering using > the suggested recovery disk (including link to source) > > <!--\*#---------REBUILD KERNEL------------#*\--!> > > 1. Download the latest kernel SOURCE package for your hardware architecture > (i.e. PIII, 4, etc) (??what about these "headers" or is that only for the > non-Debian way?) to /usr/src/linux/kernel/ (if no /usr/src/linux/kernel dir > exists, make it) and unpack it.
It's 'bad' to put things > 2. Make sure "bin86" "lib6c-dev" "debianutils" "make" "bzip2" and > "kernel-package" are installed. > 3. (on 2nd and subsequent rebuilds) Copy configuration file to > /usr/src/linux/kernel_version_source_directory/ > 4. # cd to /usr/src/linux/kernel_version_source_directory > # make menuconfig > and make your selections > 5. # make-kpkg clean > # make-kpkg -revision=0001 --initrd kernel_image > 6. A new kernel.version-0001_i386.deb will be placed in the /usr/src/linux > directory (or one up from where the sources are held) > 7. Install the new kernel using # dpkg -i kernel.~.deb > > <!--\*#------------------------------#*\--!> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Olds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:53 AM > To: Russell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Kernel Panic was: System is too Big; son of make menuconfig > > Thanks Russell and Torsten, > Last night I did a re-install...not a huge loss in that this is still in the > learning/setup phase...and all of this was in the service of setting up some > kind of backup routine. > > Suggestion for the KDE folk, by the way: 1. Give us a way to use just the > desktop without installing all the related programs...kate, konquoror, > kword, konsole...in fact the whole Linux setup should be different as far as > these desktop things are concerned...we should be being given a choice of > desktop setups, then for the one we choose, a second set of choices as to > what to include. I don't mean that the options are there, scattered around > throughout the available packages, but that we should start with a dialog > about what to include. 2. In KDE you can save a scheme, but it isn't saved > for everyone and it should be. > > This is the thing that had me perplexed: while I did not use the original > configuration as the basis for the kernel rebuild, I did follow it...if > something was built in, I built it in, if something was a module, I made it > a module...so it seems it must have been the --initrd option. read: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt /usr/src/linux/README /usr/src/linux/README.Debian http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-kernel.en.html http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Units/aut99/85321/Resources/Print_Resources/Textbook/chap13/ http://www.google.com/search?q=%22kernel+headers%22+linus+quote&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#AEN334 http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html Bear in mind that debian does things a bit differently than other distros. I haven't done enough programming to figure out the specifics of kernel headers with debian yet. The main thing is that a new kernel can be used, but source being built only needs the old headers that the system libraries like glibc? were built with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
