http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
Also, if you want to install a 2.6 kernel, make sure you have installed the module-init-tools package.
Another site you may find helpful (never used but it seems comprehensive):
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949
Yours,
Jeremie Knuesel
Deboo wrote:
I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too).
Past few days I have been sitting just compiling and re-compiling various kernels, all except 2.4.18 have failed to boot. Some don't compile and give errors, others mostly have a problem with initrd image anf get stuck saying VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
I've compiled morre than four 2.4.x kernels, one 2.6.0 and three 2.2.x kernels, some with and without patches too, these last few days I've been compiling. I'm not concluding anything but really wondering how people really compile.
I do not know C or C++. I'm no programmer. Most of the time compiling fails due to some error in some .c file which I cannot know how to do. At other times, it's something else like modules. Yes, I've been able to do monolithic kernels and able to boot without problems with them I would say. But the modular ones, hardly 2 - 3 times.
I'll list the steps I use for compiling (what am I missing?) [...]
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