On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:42:41 -0400 "Denver Gingerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:23:46 -0400 > > "Denver Gingerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Andres Salomon > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Did you manually build that? Automated kernel builds are very > >> > seriously broken right now.. > >> > >> Yes. I did this by running the following on a checkout of the > >> latest master kernel git: > >> > >> make olpc_defconfig > >> make binrpm-pkg > >> > >> Since I don't have root, the last command failed to build an RPM > >> (it wants to put it in /usr/share/redhat/RPMS) so I copied the > >> files it had created out of /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.26rc2-root > >> instead. Aside from the error building the RPM, the kernel > >> compile went fine. If my build method could result in problems > >> that aren't in the kernel tree, please let me know. I'd be happy > >> to send you the kernel binary to test if needed. > > > > Hm, can't say I've ever tried using make binrpm-pkg. > > > > Current master _should_ boot, but I've also been testing my own > > builds rather than using RPMs. Er, right, it _should_ boot with an external patch that I'd been applying. That patch is now upstream, and master has been updated to rc3. _Now_ it should boot.. > > How do you compile the kernel? I'm not accustomed to using > distro-specific targets for compiling a kernel so I basically take > suggestions from others for the best way to compile an XO kernel. I > considered using vanilla kernel build techniques, but I wasn't sure if > these would be incompatible with the way the XO kernel should be > built. > > Is there anything I can do to help further diagnose the reason the > 2.6.26-rc2 kernel won't boot? > > Denver > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
