successfull kernel build:where to go?

Tyler Littlefield tyler at tysdomain.com
Sun Dec 14 19:55:22 EST 2008


that is it. thanks.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: successfull kernel build:where to go?


>I saw an article on this in Debian weekly news about a year ago discussing 
>initrd creaters.
> Yard is deprecated as in it is not used in Debian anymore by default.
> initramfs which is a new feature of 2.6.15+ I seem to recall (it could 
> have come in earlier) is the default these days.
> apt-cache search initramfs I think the package is initramfs-tools but I 
> run ubuntu these days and aren't logged into a box to check.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:47 AM
> Subject: successfull kernel build:where to go?
>
>
>> Hello list,
>> I've got a successfull kernel build with modules and the image.
>> I was told before to use mkinitrd, which does not seem to be supported. 
>> I'm not totally sure how to go about setting up my initrd, which is the 
>> last step.
>> I read that yaird could scan for the modules specific to my system, which 
>> is something I'd like to do. Any pointers would be great. I've checked 
>> around, and found info about mkinitrd, but yaird doesn't even seem to be 
>> a package anymore... apt-cache search yaird doesn't find it, anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>> web: tysdomain-com
>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>
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