Re: make-kpkg

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> I just bought an IBM ThinkPad (R32) and all has gone almost
> fine. Actually, the install went very well until I tried to build a
> new kernel so I'd have the driver available for my wifi card. 
> 
> It wouldn't reboot - couldn't find the root directory. I thought I'd
> messed up LILO, so I reinstalled, only to have the same thing happen,
> although this time I had set things up so that the install kernel
> would boot - at least I learned something.
> 
> Short story - I can't boot into the new kernel, but I think I know
> why. I believe that because I installed the bf2.4 kernel and my root
> filesystem is EXT3, when I used make-kpkg I didn't tell it to build
> ext3 in, not use it as a module. So far I've failed to find out how to
> do that.

You are probably right. Go to the Linux source directory
(/usr/src/linux, or whatever).

Then run:
] make menuconfig

You can change the options of what to build as modules or to build in
there.

Afterwards, run make-kpkg again and all will be well.

            Daniel

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