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Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes






From: dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
CC: Ross Burton <ross.burton@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:32 -0400

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +0000, Vittorio wrote:
| Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>:
| > Hi,
| >
| > After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I
| > managed to make it boot my Sid systems.
| >
| I wonder if you can help me.
|
| In a previous post of mine I've detailed the problems I met in
| compiling kernel 2.4.9 but none told me how to compile 2.4.9 and
| that damned initrd (I've read everything about on that initrd to no
| avail).
|
| Could you please explain straightforwardly, step by step how you
| compiled your kernel?

Make sure you enable initrd when you are doing the xconfig. It is not something that stands out greatly and I missed it a few times. After enabling the initrd I was able to compile with no problems at all.

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