Creating a Custom Kernel on Debian

[Steve Holmes]

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One thing you might consider is don't do any sym links to the source
tree until you install the modules and stuff.  That might make a
difference.

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:14:32PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> Oh wow.  Yeah, it's kind of odd.  It's un-Linux-like to do things behind my 
> back like that and I find it to be extremely annoying.  I'm redownloading 
> the kernel archive and am going to try it again to see if the same thing 
> happens, but when I cd into a kernel tree and make mrproper, I expect it to 
> start fresh.
>
>
> luke wrote:
>> 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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