Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote:
> robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > As far as I'm concerned most distributions and README's recommend to
> > create a linux/ dir as a sub of src/ and I did so.
> > In the end this makes up:
> > /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot
> > - after x-tar'ing the kernet-sourcexx.tar.gz. Usually you find a
> > kernel image file in the above mentioned ..arch/i386/boot (not the
> > /boot!) and exactly there is none.
> > The impression I get now is - after reading your explaination - step
> > 2a/b would not work without step b/c (dpkg -i ../some-kernel-package
> > needs a *.deb file) which I would rather discribe as masochistic
> > because I have to learn another new kernel-build process which relies
> > only on Debian and cannot be used on other distributions.
>
> A small example of what you call "masochistic":
>
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.18pre18
> make config|menuconfig|xconfig
> make-kpkg --revision 9:blabla kernel_image
> dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.18pre18_blabla*.deb
If you keep up to debian - no problem, Andrei. In a few years we might
have 10 linux distributers and 10 diffrent kernel build routines - big
fun!
> > Likewise, my
> > previous kernel-build process can be put into /dev/null because no
> > one knows what exactly happens using dpkg and make-kpkg and is not
> > able to tell where to find my kernel image file! Now that not what I
> > would expect which I would discribe as the "linux spirit".
>
> You can use the classic kernel build process if you want (make clean dep
> bzImage modules modules_install). The kernel image will be in
> arch/i386/boot.
>
> [...]
>
> Andrei
Oh sure - how many times did I report it didn't? I'll do it all over
again.
Did you control it the last time you made one?
Robert
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