On Sat, 2007.11.17 18:22, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to > > > > include the initrd option when compiling the kernel with > > > > make-kpkg. > > > > > > I'm curious; why do you recommend initrd? I built plenty of kernels > > > using kernel-package without initrd without a problem; I only began > > > to use initrd when I began to use s2disk, which encourages it. > > > > When I first started compiling kernels, I built one using the Debian > > config as a starting point, compiled, rebooted, and got a kernel > > panic. This was because some modules were required to load the root > > fs. Using an initrd fixed that. Also, (I think) uswsusp _requires_ > > Kernel support for the root fs must obviously be available, but IIUC, it > can generally be included in the kernel. Of course, it then can't be > built as a module - I hit this when I tried building my ATA HDD support > as a module without an initrd ... Yes, I build support for the root fs in the kernel now, but the first time I configured a kernel, I didn't think of doing that.
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