Re: Recompile kernel 2.4.18 on Debian 3.0r1

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 02/10/05

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    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:49:26 -0500

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    On 10 Feb 2005 03:09:03 -0800, jose_luis_fdez_diaz@yahoo.es
      <jose_luis_fdez_diaz@yahoo.es> wrote:
    >
    > I suppressed the "--initrd" opcion because on Srivastava Document I
    > read:
    >
    >
    > % $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
    > Personally, I prefer non initrd images for my personal machines,
    > since then adding third party modules to the machine has fewere
    > gotchas
    >
    > But in other section he says:
    >
    > NOTE: if you have
    > instructed your boot loader to expect initrd kernels (which is
    > the norm for recent official kernel image packages) you need to
    > addd --initrd to the line above
    >
    > So I am confused about if this option is needed.
    >
    You need an initrd if you compiled the kernel to use modules for the
    root filesystem and the device it is on, instead of building those
    drivers into the kernel.

    >>
    >
    > I don't understand this. If the kernel is compiled you can't configure
    > it to your needs. Where can I get the precompiled packages ?
    >
    apt-get install kernel-image-<version>

    >

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