On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +0000, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: | > Hi, | > | > After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I | > managed to make it boot my Sid systems. | > | I wonder if you can help me. | | In a previous post of mine I've detailed the problems I met in | compiling kernel 2.4.9 but none told me how to compile 2.4.9 and | that damned initrd (I've read everything about on that initrd to no | avail). | | Could you please explain straightforwardly, step by step how you | compiled your kernel?
Do this in the kernel-source directory. (from the top of my head, see 'man make-kpkg' for more details) $ fakeroot make-kpkg --with-config=xconfig --append-to-version=-local.1.0 --revision=local.1.0 --initrd kernel-image Then in the parent of that (/usr/src for me) you will have kernel-image-2.4.9-local.1.0_local.1.0_i386.deb which you can install using dpkg -i. The reason for doubling the version is one is for the kernel (the name of the image in /boot and the directory in /lib/modules) and the other is for the Debian package (the version column of 'dpkg -l'). HTH, -D
