Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:54 PM, yong lee wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix

patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing

config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new

kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be

.config.  Then I ran 'make-kpkg kernel_image' to build

the kernel. But when I reboot with the new kernel, I

got a boot error.

Make sure you pass the --initrd option to make-kpkg.  This will build an initial RAMdisk with the drivers the system needs to boot.

David Brodbeck

Information Technology Specialist 3

Computational Linguistics

University of Washington