debian live under an alternate kernel (was binary.iso in Lenny)

[daniel at debian.org (Daniel Baumann)]

jll wrote:
> I made a linux-image-2.6.21.deb from Unstable source with make-kpkg.
> I put this package in ./debian-live/config/chroot_local-packages/
> I put this line in ./debian-live/config/chroot :
> LH_LINUX_PACKAGES="none"
> In ./debian-live/config/bootstrap, I have LH_DISTRIBUTION="etch"

so far so good.

> lh_clean all
> lh_config
> lh_build

since you have already a config, you don't need to call lh_config again.
it should not hurt, though.

> 'ls debian-live/chroot/boot' gives me :
> config-2.6.21  System.map-2.6.21  vmlinuz-2.6.21
> 'ls debian-live/binary/casper' gives me :
> filesystem.manifest  filesystem.squashfs  memtest  vmlinuz-2.6.21

you're missing an initrd. you probably forgot --initrd when building the
kernel with make-kpkg.

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