Creating a Custom Kernel on Debian

luke speakup at lists.tacticus.com
Mon Aug 4 23:06:51 EDT 2008


I've been noticing a similar behavior with kernel.org tarballs and 
menuconfig, under Ubuntu, without kernel-package installed.

Luke


On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Robert Spangler wrote:

> That's what is weird - I did.  I used
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.1.tar.bz2.  I'll
> investigate it more later - maybe kernel-package is doing something funny?
> 
> 
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > It sounds like you may be using the debian sources, since you
> > mentioned a package. I know that it's normal for what you describe to
> > happen when you do oldconfig, and you don't have a .config file in the
> > kernel source directory, I've never heard of that happening with
> > menuconfig, unless this is a debian thing like you said. What I wanted
> > to mention, in case you weren't aware of it, is that you don't have to use
> > the debian sources to build a custom
> > kernel using kernel-package if you don't want to. I personally use the
> > standard sources from kernel.org.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Wow, this is odd!  I untared the linux-2.6.26.1 package, created a
> > > symlink to it, called linux, and installed a git copy of Speakup to it.
> > > When I go in and do make menuconfig, it tried to take settings out of  the
> > > config file for my current kernel from /boot!  Then, I went to move  that
> > > and it tried to take them from arch/x86/config or  whatever....What's
> > > going on here?  Whatever happened to just plain  custom-kernel building?
> > > LOL...Unless this is a Debian thing but I don't  recall reading about it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Robby
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