advice needed on kernel compiling

[John Heim]

Shane,

I still consider myself something of a newbie on kernel compiling (although, 
technically, I've been building unix/linux kernels for 20 years).

Why do you generate an initrd image?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: advice needed on kernel compiling


> Hi Chuck,
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:43:17AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>> I would like to make a smooth upgrade from Shane's 2.6.17-speakup
>> package to the new 2.6.18 kernel, and could use some advice doing this.
>
> Well if you want to stick with the package, I'll probably
> have one shortly.  Just gotta get the amd64 system back up
> so I can compile for that arch.
>
>> If I patch the 2.6.18 source tree with speakup (already done), do a make
>> mrproper (already done), copy over the existing 2.6.17-speakup
>> configuration into the new source directory and run make oldconfig
>> (already done), and then run make (running while I am typing this),
>
> Assuming you haven't installed already, the suggested way
> of doing this is the following:
> as root:
> apt-get build-dep linux-2.6
> exit root shell
> That will install any packages needed to compile the kernel
> assuming you have appropriate deb-src lines in sources.list
>
> Grab kernel, unpack and setup the .config file as you've
> done
> then:
> make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1 --rootcmd fakeroot \
> --us --uc --initrd kernel-image
>
> That should generate a linux-image-xxx.deb which you can
> just install with dpkg -i and should take care of the
> initrd image.
>
> As an alternative, someone else suggested going without an
> initrd which you can certainly do and avoid the deb stuff.
> If you do that however, you need to go through the configs
> and make sure your root FS and support drivers are compiled
> directly into the kernel and not as modules as they are by
> default under Debian.  For example, ext3, ide core support.
> Basically any module which is needed to mount the root FS.
>
> S
>
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