Ron> "make install" creates an initrd image and updates the grub.conf
Ron> file, and it needs the results of "make modules_install" to do
Ron> this properly.
Pete> -make install- did not create an image for me nor did it install
Pete> any image the last time I compiled a kerne
-make install- did not create an image for me nor did it install any image
the last time I compiled a kernel (somewhere around the 2.4.7 series). You
may want to -man mkinitrd- and do it by hand to be sure and edit your grub
or lilo accordingly.
Pete
At 10:26 AM 11/15/2002, you wrote:
Mar
Marko> i just rebuilt the kernel using the following procedure:
Marko> make mrproper
Marko> make xconfig # loaded configuration from file
Marko> make dep
Marko> make bzImage
Marko> make install
Marko> make modules
Marko> make modules_install
Marko> but the result is st
i finally managed to get the system boot a custom built kernel. the thing
that made the difference was enabling RAM disk + initrd support
(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) in kernel config. i also had
to create an initrd file for the kernel and define it in grub.conf. this
was the only
On 15 Nov 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:49, Marko Asplund wrote:
>
> heres the first problem I see. If you copy a config file fron configs/
> and then run xconfig, it will overwrite it :) You either need to
> 1. copy the config file (and don't run any make config command)
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:49, Marko Asplund wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > what was the order of make commands you used to make the kernel? eg
> > (from the /usr/src/linux- directory) you commands should look
> > something like this
> > ...
>
> i just tried it with v2.4.18. h
On 14 Nov 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> what was the order of make commands you used to make the kernel? eg
> (from the /usr/src/linux- directory) you commands should look
> something like this
> ...
i just tried it with v2.4.18. here're the make commands i used (didn't do
mrproper because the tr
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 03:08, Marko Asplund wrote:
>
> i'm having a strange problem trying to boot a custom built 2.4.19 kernel
> on a Psyche system. the Red Hat 2.4.18-17.8.0smp kernel works fine on this
> system but a custom built kernel fails to mount root device during boot.
[snip]
what was the
