Hi On Saturday 21 November 2009, Balaji Ravindran wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using > make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my > compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was > no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb. For questions about Debian specific packaging helpers like kernel-package[1], you would better contact debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. > i did use --initrd option, [...] Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz [2], it explains which hook scripts you have to configure for generating an initramfs, --initrd is not sufficient anymore[3] (since kernel-package 12.000). Also consider that the Debian kernel team considers kernel-package to be deprecated in favour of the upstream kernel build system's own "make deb-pkg" target[4]. Unrelated to this topic, I'd suggest to take the configs of your running (distribution-) kernel as starting point, because this likely introduces the least amount of surprise (ide vs. libata storage layer, etc.). Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package [2] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/srivasta/debian/kernel-package.git;a=blob;f=README (line 284ff) [3] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj//blog/2009/04/07/Not_your_father__39__s_kernel-package/ [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2009/10/msg00613.html -- 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
