Re: make-kpkg & initrd?
If fs and ide drivers are compiled into kernel, then initrd is not
necessary.
Using make-kpkg to build a custom kernel-image is quit simple. You can
get more info from debian-reference and man pages.
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:10:36PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> I'm trying to build a debian kernel using make-kpkg. It seems simple
> enough, except when I install the newly created kernel package, it
> doesn't create the initrd image. So, when I manually create the
> initrd image with mkinitrd, the boot process complains about not
> finding modules.dep file in the modules directory. Is there something
> I'm missing that's preventing the entire kernel-image package from
> being built correctly? Thanks for any tips.
> --
> Jiann-Ming Su
> "I have to decide between two equally frightening options.
> If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman
>
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