Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
> But in that case your initrd (or the 2nd floppy with the modules) will > need to contain the modules compatible with your new kernel too. i understand that, but make-kpkg is supposed to (and always has in the past) taken care of that for me. > Save yourself the headache and compile support for

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > It is perfectly possible to say "m" to all types of disks and all > > filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the > > disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel. > > i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
> It is perfectly possible to say "m" to all types of disks and all > filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the > disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel. i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules to be loaded into a ram disk before the disk was

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware > > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. > > It didn't work out too well :-). > > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > RAMDISK: Couldn't fin

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware > > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. > > It didn't work out too well :-). > > hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked. i copied my .config >

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:04:33PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: | | > Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware | > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. | > It didn't work out too well :-). | | hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked.

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
> Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. > It didn't work out too well :-). hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked. i copied my .config from my 2.4.14 kernel (which works just fine) to t

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:33:56AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: | | hey. | | i've never tried to run make-kpkg on non-debian'ized kernel source before | (ie. normally i download kernel-source-2.x.x). | | so i downloaded the source, cd'd into it and ran: | | make-kpkg --initrd --revision=2:adam.1.0

make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i've never tried to run make-kpkg on non-debian'ized kernel source before (ie. normally i download kernel-source-2.x.x). so i downloaded the source, cd'd into it and ran: make-kpkg --initrd --revision=2:adam.1.0 kernel-image and i get a package that looks and installs fine, but it won't