Steve,

A couple of comments below.

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Steve Dibb wrote:

> Daniel Fort wrote:
> > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but a new 2.6.12 kernel that I built in
> > lbe keeps bailing out on startup with:
>
> I spent most of this weekend trying to get a custom kernel working with LTSP,
> and finally got it, but I built it outside of LBE.
>
> Here's the basic howto -- someone correct me if I'm doing something really
> wrong here, otherwise I'll post it on the wiki.
>
> 1. Download my kernel, unpack it
> 2. Copy the .config from the ltsp-kernel, run make meunconfig, do my tweaks

You should do a 'make oldconfig' first. That will take care of any
changes in the version of the kernel.


> 3. build the kernel, install all possible NICs inside the kernel
> 4. Run mkinitrd from the ltsp-initrd tools
> 5. gunzip the initrd for the new kernel, edit linuxrc to not look for network
> modules, gzip it back up

If you are adding the nic drivers as statically linked, rather than as
modules, then you don't really need the initrd at all.  You can just
have the kernel do the ip-autoconfig and nfs-root for you.  Although
keep in mind, Linus keeps threatening to remove those items from the
kernel.


>
> And that's about it.  That's probably wrong on a lot of levels, but it works.
> I still haven't figured out how to get modules working on there, even if I
> copy over /lib/modules/`uname -r` to /opt/ltsp/i386, they still won't load.
> I'm probably missing something in linuxrc somewhere.


Hmm, dunno.  What version of the kernel are you using, and what version
of LTSP?

We didn't have the newer module tools until 4.1.1 (or was that 4.1).

Jim McQuillan
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