[Gllug] initrd images & building 2.6.x kernels

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:40 +0100, Sarah Ewen wrote:

> There was something romantic about building a vanilla kernel, taking it
> from it's orignal bz2 archive and transforming it into a nice new shiny
> kernel for me to boot.

Don't be put off by make-kpkg's warning about cramfs. Just make sure
that you've selected cramfs in the kernel config
 Filesystems
  Miscellaneous filesystems
   <*> Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)

Works for me on Ubuntu with make-kpkg. 
And you can do something like this to look inside the initrd file:

sudo mount -t cramfs /boot/initrd.img-2.6.13.1 /mnt/misc/ -o loop
tree /mnt/misc

But as has already been said, it's a bit pointless if you're doing it
for one machine - make-kpgk bzips the whole thing up just for dpkg to
unbzip it again...

TomSW


		
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