Hi Stephen, Thanks for your reply. Wow, the four references that you provided makes lot more sense to me. I shall try using some examples in readme mentioned below. Thanks Balaji R On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > 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
