advice needed on kernel compiling

[Sean McMahon]

Not sure, I've just used make mrproper make oldconfig and make-kpkg.  I didn't 
bother with an initrd and didn't bother including a line for one in my menu.lst 
file.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:43 AM
Subject: advice needed on kernel compiling


> Thanks to Greg for the date info on the 2.6.18 patches.
>
> 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.
> My problem is that Shane's configuration uses an initrd, which I have
> never done manually myself before. Here's my key question:
>
> 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),
>
> then what else must I do before doing a make modules_install and make
> install, in order to deal with the initrd issue? I am using the grub
> boot loader, so an update-grub when done ought to work fine, provided
> there is an initrd file for the new kernel as there is for the old one.
>
> Advice sorely needed,
>
> Chuck
>
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