Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:16:25 -0800
Dale Harris <rodmur@maybe.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +0000, Pollywog elucidated:
> >
> > I use the Debian source package to compile kernels, since my system
> > is using initrd I need to use Debian kernels.
>
> Well, that's not exactly true.. make-kpkg will happily create an
> initrd for you. apt-get install kernel-package if you haven't
> already, it's a must when building a kernel on a debian system.
>
It is true that debian patch the kernel sources with a cramfs patch.
Without that patch you won't be able to use initrd with the
mkinitrd *default configuration*!
But you can edit the file /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf to use romfs:
Simply comment out
#MKIMAGE='mkcramfs %s %s > /dev/null'
and add
MKIMAGE='genromfs -d %s -f %s'
Be sure, that genromfs is installed and romfs is compiled into the
kernel (not as a module).
Then initrd works also with a vanilla kernel.
Regards
Kai
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