Re: Recompiling new kernel

Ebrahim Mayat Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:07:27 -0700

On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Jason DeVita wrote:

Ok, well, I've never made an initrd image, but from the man page, it looks pretty simple. Like this:

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17.7.img 2.6.17.7

This generates the compressed archive as expected.

Try "man mkinitrd" or "info mkinitrd" to read about it. Then add the "initrd" line back into yaboot.conf, but this time pointing to the new initrd image:

initrd=/initrd-2.6.17.7.img

Done.

You might also consider pointing yaboot at the new system map with the line:

sysmap=/System.map-2.6.17.7

(assuming that's what you called it.)

With and without the sysmap line, I get the same "Invalid memory access" error. It seems that there still remains one or more omitted steps.

Just one more thing, if this is of any importance, which I doubt, in the following section

[4] Build and install the kernel and modules

# make vmlinux

# make modules

Assuming no errors above

# make modules_install

# cp arch/ppc/boot/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7

# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7

# ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7 /boot/System.map

I did "cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7" since the "vmlinux" binary was in the top-level directory and there was no "arch/ppc/boot" directory.

Thanks for all your help thus far.

Regards.

Ebrahim

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