Thanks all for the detailed replies. Also, the dpkg build is very nice - a 
guy could get used to it ;-)

-J

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 10:43:34 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I have a new BeagleBone Black (rev C) and got it booting from SD with the 
> Debian 4GB SD image from 2015-03-01
>
> My goal is to cross compile a custom kernel on my Linux PC and update the 
> necessary items on the Debian SD card.
>
> So.... I got the 4.1.1 Linux kernel from here:
>
>   git clone git://github.com/beagleboard/linux.git
>
>
> And then built the new kernel like this from what I gleaned on the web:
>
>   make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- bb.org_defconfig
>   make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- uImage 
> am335x-boneblack.dtb LOADADDR=0x80008000
>   make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- modules
>   mkdir MODULES
>   make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- modules_install 
> INSTALL_MOD_PATH=./MODULES
>   cd MODULES
>   tar czf target_modules.tgz lib
>
> Success! Compiled with no errors. Now I have a uImage, a dtb, and a 
> tarball of the modules to move the SD card.
> BUT, when I look at the /boot dir on the Debian SD it seems to need 
> vmlinuz and and initrd?
>
> Can someone please advise on either how to use what I have built, or how 
> to build what I need to update the SD card.
> I'm not looking for an automated solution, I would rather understand the 
> details at this point.
>
> Regards,
> Jalodi
>
>

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