From: Keith Goettert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Today 11:17:18 >My support of cramfs was complied into the kernel, but it still would >not work. A very telling sign that it was compiled in was its >complaint >that it couldn't find a valid filesystem in the boot messages (which >according to my readings is also a disputed and unresolved >bug/feature.) Now I have redone the initrd image as an uncompressed >ext2 fs. I am still not home free (many many errors that need to be >checked) but it does appear to be mounting it. STAY TUNED this is >going >to be a HOWTO when I'm done. I can't believe the number of hours this >has taken!
I just got done recompiling a initrd kernel for a dual amd MP machine and I did not have any problems at all. I did cheat a little bit because I installed a kernel-image then copied the config file into .config of my kernel-source and compiled the kernel. I did this so I could get rid of some modules that I have no use for. In fact I did get the url off this list, thanks to the many developers hanging out here. http://master.debian.org/~herbert/sid/ I used kernel-source-2.4.23_2.4.23-1_all.deb installed using dpkg -i, untar in usr/src and then built my kernel like normal, using the debian way according to debian reference. I then update-grub, reboot, then update-modules. It booted into my new kernel no problem, but did complain about a depmod problem, in a module that I forgot to unselect in the make menuconfig. Not a big deal, everything worked fine just a message in dmesg, and whenever I use depmod. Since I don't like such messages I then went back to herberts site and downloaded the kernel-tree-2.4.23.deb. Then tried to install using dpkg -i, but it complained and wanted a patches file, so I downloaded that and installed it also. I then rebooted and all my depmod problems were gone. Like I said if your having problems maybe you can install one of the kernel-images for your system, then copy the config file over to your source file. good luck; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
