On Thursday 12 November 2009 06:56:24 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 06 2009, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> > Yes, I am confused, too.
> >
> > cp /boot/config-2.6.31-1-amd64 .config
> > make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> >
> > now generates linux-xenu-2.6.31_custom.1.0_amd64.deb rather than
> > linux-image-2.6.31_custom.1.0_amd64.deb There is a bug somewhere, and
> > most likely in the "new support for Xen in make- kpkg" (unless
> > linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 provides a wrong config file).
> 
>         The latter, I think. It adds in support for Xen DomU, and
>  kernel-package obliges. The only difference, at this point, is in the
>  name of the kernel image, it can be  installed and used as a normal
>  kernel as well.
> 

Maybe... but how to do?

dpkg -i linux-xenu-2.6.31_custom.1.0_amd64.deb

installs /boot/xenu-linux-2.6.31

and this does not get included by grub.
Something has to be fixed so that a user following the standard instructions 
installing a "custom" kernel does not run into trouble.

Alan



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