Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:41:55 -0800 | From | Balaji Ravindran <> | Subject | Kernel compilation Question |
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Hi all,
I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb.
i did use --initrd option,
Was it because, using make defconfig compiles everything on the kernel itself? Aren't there any 'm' option in defaults?(dunno just asking if this is the case)
or did i miss something out
Please see if i missed some step
Summary of steps performed.
extracted wireless 2.6 source onto /usr/src
created symbolic link
make defconfig (i did not copy my existing config file to .config, i just wanted to try out make defconfig option)
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=foo --revision=bar kernel_image modules_image kernel_headers
this created 2 files linux-image* and linux-headers*, i was missing the modules image also(but that was a second question)
did dpkg -i linux-image*
updated grub and placed files in /boot, but did not create initrd image. Why is that?
Thanks
Balaji R
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