Re: Kernel compiling
Ahh, yes sounds like I wasn't clear on what you were referring to. But
from the sound of it I still need a working kernel to turn into a kernel
package, correct? That's my problem :] outside of the 2.4.18 kernel that
came with woody, I haven't been able to get one to boot. Still mucking
around with it right now.
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Tib
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Tib wrote:
>
> > As written earlier, the kernel package is what I have already tried to
> > boot from and it freezes after the 'remapping the kernel' message. Happens
> > for both the 2.4.27 smp and 2.6.8 smp packaged kernels. The only
> > difference I can find with them being that both of them use initrd images
> > so I am trying to build a 2.6.8 which does not use/need that since the
> > 2.4.18 kernel that it runs right now will boot successfully and does not
> > use initrd.
>
> Hm, kernel-package is just a tool for building your own kernel debs. It
> has nothing to do with packaged Debian kernels. Using it you can build your
> own kernel debs using the whatever source and configs you prefer. Maybe I
> am stating something obvious for you here (sorry about that in that case),
> but from your reply it looks like there is a bit of confusion :-).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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