On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:17, Hai Yi wrote: > hey peter: > first, thank you very much! after reading your post, I did the > following things: I ran the make bzImage to create a vmlinuz in the > boot and I saw its corresponding system map as well (without doing > any additional work), and I modified menu.1st and added the new > kernel's entry. > > However, here comes the problem. I found the last line of each entry > is about the initrd.img, I can find 2.4.17's initrd.img from /boot, > but as I mentioned earlier, I couldn't create the initrd.img for my > new kernel. > > Ignoring this line for the new kernel's entry in menu.1st or using > the old kernel's initrd.img for the new entry would cause kernel > panic, whatsoever. > > Good news is that I eventually created this file using: > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.13 2.6.8.13 > > and added it to the menu.1st. Then the new kernel is installed and > worked! and I used uname -r to verify the installation. > > Bad news is that the usb port has problem - I couldn't make the mouse > work. I guess it's a bout the configuration. But how come this was > not the problem for my old kernel? I used the same configuration, I > think. > > Basically, I followed this link to compile the new kernel: > http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian
UGH. Don't follow those directions they're way too wordy, and not Debian enough. They really don't know the Debian way to create a kernel. You can do it all in just a couple lines, assuming you have kernel-package and yaird (or initramfs-tools) already installed: (as root) # cd /path/to/kernel/sources # rm -rf debian/ stamp-* # make-kpkg --append-to-version=-default1 --config=menuconfig \ --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers # dpkg -i ../linux-image...deb ../linux-headers...deb (the exact names for the dpkg -i command will depend on the kernel version you're installing) And there's no need to edit menu.lst, as Debian should do it for you. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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