Juraj Holtak wrote:
is it a good idea to grab kernel config from a present FAI kernel and
just apply it to a kernel of higher version?
I need more actual kernels because I`m trying to setup some fancy
maschines with sata drives and unsupported NICs.
Are there any gotchas doing it so?
Is somebody interessted in an unofficial FAI-kernel debian repository
and a FAI script exchange website? I`m playing with the idea to setup
something like this.
I just went through this, so here's what I discovered.
I guess in theory you can take any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel source from
kernel.org, but my experience was that I wasn't smart enough to actually
make that work. The following, however, will absolutely work. The
precise details might vary with your environment, but this should be
very close to a "vanilla" setup. Good luck
* Get the Debian kernel source (e.g. /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27)
I always make a symlink like this:
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27 /usr/src/linux
* Get the config file from FAI. I did:
dpkg -x /data/tpg/libfai/kernel/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_1_i386.deb \
/tmp/crap
Copy the config file from /tmp/crap/boot to /usr/src/linux/.config
* Make the kernel as a Debian package
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version -fai \
--revision 2 kernel-image
* This results in a Debian FAI kernel package in /usr/src
Copy this to /usr/lib/fai/kernel
cp -p /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_2_i386.deb \
/usr/lib/fai/kernel
* Configure FAI to use this new kernel by setting this in
/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
KERNELPACKAGE=/usr/lib/fai/kernel/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_2_i386.deb
* Create a new FAI boot image
make-fai-nfsroot -K
* Create a new FAI bootfloppy or CD or whatever you use to boot. E.g.
/usr/sbin/make-fai-bootfloppy -v \
nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot \
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,createvt vga=1
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