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Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted



On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:

> On 13 Sep 2002 18:59:40 -0500 Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
> 
> > How so?  Furthermore, what extra steps do you take to avoid having to
> > use one?  When I built a 2.4.19 kernel yesterday and omitted the
> > '--initrd' option, I was unable to boot.  I recovered with the old
> > 2.4.18 kernel, made an initrd, and was back up and running after the
> > reboot.  Given that I've detailed the exact commands I used to build a
> > kernel, what did I miss?
> 
> To boot without it, you need to make sure that all needed drivers are
> built into the kernel.  Personally, I prefer the initrd image option.

Hi,
to boot without the initrs option you first have to make sure that - as
said - ext2 (or whatever filesystem you are using) is not modularized in
your kernel - instead it should be built into your kernel ... and you
should disable the initrd option of your kernel.
I compiled a 2.4.16 kernel with a initrd image (make-kpkg --initrd) and
I had no problems.

A lot of users install a kernel-image from debian and the corresponding
source, take the configuration file and copy it to their source to make
some changes ... so all this kernel-images use the initrd ... my thought
was that those users should take care of this option so that the boot up
won't leave them allone.


Oliver

-- 
... don't touch the bang-bang fruit



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