Re: initrd/cramfs/etc (was Re: srm nightmare, milo & kernel future questions)
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:48, Nick Ntarmos wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:00:08PM -0700, Chris Hecker wrote:
> > Okay, so I downloaded the 2.4.21 kernel source from kernel.org. I upgrade
> > gcc to build it. I make the initrd image with mkinitrd. The kernel won't
> > mount it and panics. I read the net for a while, finding that mkinitrd
> > makes a cramfs image, but debian kernels are patched to allow initrd and
> > the generic kernel source is not. Herbert is quoted as saying you can just
>
> That's not true. Any decent linux kernel can support an initrd.
I think you're incorrect. I've had the same problem on i386 for some
time. Compiling a stock kernel with the Debian config never works
because of this initrd problem.
And the Debian kernel sources are quite different from stock sources.
IMHO, this is not the way this should be done: the .tar.bz2 should
contain the pristine upstream (stock) source just like .orig.tar.gz, and
patches should ship separately.
So where can we get the Debian patches, aside from "diff -urN linux
kernel-source-2.4.20"?
Zeen,
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