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Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16



On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:33:56AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
| 
| hey.
| 
| i've never tried to run make-kpkg on non-debian'ized kernel source before
| (ie. normally i download kernel-source-2.x.x).
| 
| so i downloaded the source, cd'd into it and ran:
| 
|  make-kpkg --initrd --revision=2:adam.1.0 kernel-image
| 
| and i get a package that looks and installs fine, but it won't boot.  i
| don't have the exact error because i'm compiling the kernel again, but
| it's something along the lines of "root:  not found" or something that
| makes me think that i've made a typo in my menu.lst but i haven't, it's
| all automatically generated by update-grub and is working fine for all my
| other kernels.

Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware
controlling the disk.  I once left out support for my IDE controller.
It didn't work out too well :-).

-D

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