Hi all,
I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using
make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my
compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was
no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb.
i did use --initrd option,
Was it because, using make defconfig compiles everything on the kernel
itself? Aren't there any 'm' option in defaults?(dunno just asking if
this is the case)
or did i miss something out
Please see if i missed some step
Summary of steps performed.
extracted wireless 2.6 source onto /usr/src
created symbolic link
make defconfig (i did not copy my existing config file to .config, i
just wanted to try out make defconfig option)
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=foo --revision=bar kernel_image
modules_image kernel_headers
this created 2 files linux-image* and linux-headers*, i was missing the
modules image also(but that was a second question)
did dpkg -i linux-image*
updated grub and placed files in /boot, but did not create initrd image.
Why is that?
Thanks
Balaji R
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your reply. Wow, the four references that you provided makes lot more sense to me. I shall try using some examples in readme mentioned below.
Thanks
Balaji R
On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Saturday 21 November 2009, Balaji Ravindran wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using
>> make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my
>> compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was
>> no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb.
>
> For questions about Debian specific packaging helpers like
> kernel-package[1], you would better contact [email protected]
> instead.
>
>> i did use --initrd option,
> [...]
>
> Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz [2], it explains which
> hook scripts you have to configure for generating an initramfs, --initrd is
> not sufficient anymore[3] (since kernel-package 12.000).
>
> Also consider that the Debian kernel team considers kernel-package to be
> deprecated in favour of the upstream kernel build system's own
> "make deb-pkg" target[4].
>
> Unrelated to this topic, I'd suggest to take the configs of your running
> (distribution-) kernel as starting point, because this likely introduces
> the least amount of surprise (ide vs. libata storage layer, etc.).
>
> Regards
> Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
>
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package
> [2] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/srivasta/debian/kernel-package.git;a=blob;f=README (line 284ff)
> [3] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj//blog/2009/04/07/Not_your_father__39__s_kernel-package/
> [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2009/10/msg00613.html
Hi
On Saturday 21 November 2009, Balaji Ravindran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using
> make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my
> compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was
> no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb.
For questions about Debian specific packaging helpers like
kernel-package[1], you would better contact [email protected]
instead.
> i did use --initrd option,
[...]
Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz [2], it explains which
hook scripts you have to configure for generating an initramfs, --initrd is
not sufficient anymore[3] (since kernel-package 12.000).
Also consider that the Debian kernel team considers kernel-package to be
deprecated in favour of the upstream kernel build system's own
"make deb-pkg" target[4].
Unrelated to this topic, I'd suggest to take the configs of your running
(distribution-) kernel as starting point, because this likely introduces
the least amount of surprise (ide vs. libata storage layer, etc.).
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package
[2] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/srivasta/debian/kernel-package.git;a=blob;f=README (line 284ff)
[3] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj//blog/2009/04/07/Not_your_father__39__s_kernel-package/
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2009/10/msg00613.html