Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:53 am, you wrote:
> John O'Hagan wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel
> >sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and
> > the stock source from kernel.org.
[...]
> >What do I need to be aware of if I use stock sources?
[...]
>

>
> Here are two pointers for kernel building newbies:
>
> 1. Be sure that the code for your IDE chipset (if you're using IDE) is
> built in to the kernel, rather than being built as a module.
> 2. Be sure that the code for your / (root) filesystem (ext3, reiserfs,
> etc.) is built into the kernel, rather than being built as a module.
>
> Doing these things will allow you to skip using an initial ram disk
> (initrd).
> These are the two most common issues that foiled my first kernel
> building attempts.  :)

Thanks Mitch for your tips; I have built a few kernels before, and have them 
set up as you suggest; however, they still seem to use an initrd by default. 
How does one prevent this? (I have read man kernel-pkg.conf, but didn't quite 
follow it!)

Thanks,

John