advice needed on kernel compiling

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

That sounds pretty easy. Maybe I'm anticipating too many problems.

Thanks

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:07:57AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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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