On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > > Thanks for getting back to me, but do i make the line look like this : > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image --initrd** > > and then execute : > > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.29_custom.1.0_i386.deb > > cd /boot/ > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29 2.6.29
True, that will not necessitate a recompile. But, the next time you build your kernel, just use make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image Also, to easily make an initramfs, I use update-initramfs as follows: sudo update-initramfs -c -v 2.6.29 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
