Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org [SOLVED]

["Gregor Galwas" <g.galwas@highantdev.de>]

Hey,

Thx everybody for your quick answers and friendly help.

You were right. I removed all Xen options from the kernel config and

linux-image-2.6.32-rc5_20091016-2_amd64.deb

has been built.
Installing it with "dpkg -i ..." worked fine.
The only problem to be solved was the initrd. it has NOT been generated by  
dpkg during the installation.
so I generated it using mkinitramfs -c -k 2.6.32-rc5. worked fine.  
update-grub - worked fine as well.

Finally I can use KMS with my radeon 4670 :)

Greetings
Gregor Galwas

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:34:53 +0200, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         Well, firstly, if you are going to be using the buildpackage
>  target, instead of the far faster kernel_image target, you should
>  either configure /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, adding your name and email, and
>  have that in a keyring your gpg knows about, or pass the --us and --uc
>  arguments on the command line.
>
>         I think, unless you know what you are doing, try first with
>  kernel_image target.
>
>         Next, you seem to have Xen options turned on in your config, and
>  thus make-kpkg is trying to create a xenu-linux image. This is
>  undergoing some development, so if you want Xen images, please get the
>  12.024 version of kernel-package from Sid.
>
>         If you are just trying to build a normal kernel, redo your
>  .config not to have Xen stuff in it.
>
>         manoj