On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Upon a 'make install' on a kernel source directory I think > distributions should automagically build your initrd for you. I use > Ubuntu mainly on x86 and for those boxen I installed debianutils, > which provides /sbin/installkernel. This is the path and filename to > the "distribution" script which the kernel Makefiles will run when you > type try to build the install target. > > Fedora for example builds your all this shiny stuff for you too. I've > modified Debian's installkernel script to do this for Ubuntu. It'd be > nice to see Ubuntu ship with this script and with the below patch > applied. Mind you, Debian ships this script in debianutils. I haven't > run debian in a while so not sure if debian uses the same format as > you do for their initrd. If so then this can go upstream. > > Just a small itch I had to scratch as I just apt-get dist-upgraded and > Ubuntu replaced my installkernel with the new one and it wasn't there. BTW the fact that this went to linux-wireless was a complete goof :) Don't know WTF happened. I blame e1000e for anything strange happening lately. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
