Re: Two questions about building kernels

From: Nelson Castillo (nelsoneci_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/30/05

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To: Debian Linux General Discussion List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>

    On 8/29/05, David A. Cobb <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
    >
    > I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine. Two things are rather
    > problematical:
    >
    > The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet. If it is one, can
    > I add to it the values I want for CC & CFLAGS so they are tied to a
    > particular build configuration when I need to re-do it?

    AFAIK you cannot. It might be enough to select the right processor.

    and
    > The "official" kernel images are all built with initrd. My build
    > complains about the size (number of blocks) in the initrd fs. Where is
    > the parameter to create a smaller number of larger "disks" in the initrd
    > fs.

    I dunno. Never happened to me. You might want to read this:
    http://www.debianuniverse.com/readonline/chapter/21

    Aw, heck! I might as well add the third -- Why my non-initrd kernel
    > won't boot?
    > It panics with Cannot open root device on (3,01), please specify a
    > correct root.
    > My lilo.conf indeed says root=/dev/hda1 which is correct.

    You need to have the hardisk driver and the filesystem driver in the kernel,
    and not as a module if you want to boot with without using initrd.

    Regards,
    Nelson.- 

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