make-kpkg, initrd and kernel source questions

From: Madhusudan Singh (spammers-go-here_at_spam.invalid)
Date: 08/02/05 

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:57:23 -0400

Have a few questions about make-kpkg (just compiled my first kernel with
make-kpkg, its neater in a way than the usual source compile) :

1. I had some problems with booting (VFS panic with a failed SCSI hard disk
kmod modprobe block-major-8) until I realized that the
updated /boot/grub/menu.lst did not contain an initrd line. Is it possible
to force make-kpkg to issue a mkinitrd and add that line in the update-grub
stage ?

2. Is it possible / advisable to use kernel sources downloaded from
www.kernel.org (as against kernel-source packages) with make-kpkg ?

Thanks.

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