Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I now have a nice
> > new 2.6.32.1 kernel running! at first it couldn't boot, then I
> > noticed that there was no initrd.. I "forgot" that option... once
> > I built it again, it now boots. SO, I just have to go back through
> > and make it SMALLER...
>
> Congrats! Nice job.
>
> Make sure you save your '.config' file somewhere safe. You can lose
> everything else, but if you lose that... you'll have to do all of
> that nightmare over again.
>
> Once you figure it out the first time, it's always easier after that....
make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover
your .config file for your running kernel from that file.
rday
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