Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:41:50PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Hi again, > > I managed to fix it by installing initramfs-tools, though I don't > pretend to understand why it happened. > > Any explanations would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Yasir I suspect the problem is that not all init

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-31 Thread Yasir Assam
The strange thing is that it worked ok with 2.6.14.3 using the same .config file. In any case, I found installing initramfs-tools fixed it. Thanks for the info. Yasir Apparently, mkinitrd can no longer support a large number of configurations after kernel 2.6.12 (when devfs was droppe

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:58:24 +1100, Yasir Assam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded > kernel > 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with make-kpkg as follows: > $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -xyz > --ini

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-31 Thread Wilbert Knol
Yesterday I also built and installed a 2.6.14-5 kernel from kernel.org and I don't have the initramfs-tools installed. What I did (as root user) was this: make xconfig ..then edited the Makefile, adding to the EXTRAVERSION string make-kpkg kernel_image dpkg --install However, I always use hard

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-31 Thread Yasir Assam
Hi again, I managed to fix it by installing initramfs-tools, though I don't pretend to understand why it happened. Any explanations would be much appreciated. Thanks, Yasir Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded kernel 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with mak

Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-30 Thread Yasir Assam
Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded kernel 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with make-kpkg as follows: $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -xyz --initrd \ kernel_image $ cd .. # dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb When