[Gllug] initrd images & building 2.6.x kernels

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Sun Sep 11 15:40:24 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:32 +0100, Sarah Ewen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've spent the weekend building 2.6.10+ kernels and have come to the
> conclusion that I'm missing some basic knowledge about initial ramdisks.
[snip]
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu Hoary *makes face at John*, and have managed to build one
> 2.6.13 kernel & ramdisk that boots ok, but it looks like I just fluked
> it.

I'm not experienced with Ubuntu but understand it to be a Debian-derived
distribution.  Does it not have make-kpkg?  Using that would make your
life a lot simpler.

HTH
John

P.S.  I presume you were making a face at a different John?

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