Re: mkinitcpio

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On 02/09/2016 12:16 AM, me@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am glad this is the newbies list ;)
> 
> The initial problem was 
> 
> # mkinitcpio -g initramfs-custom.img -k 4.5.0-eudyptula+
> ==> Starting build: 4.5.0-eudyptula+
>   -> Running build hook: [base]
>   -> Running build hook: [udev]
>   -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
>   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
>   -> Running build hook: [block]
>   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
>   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
>   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
> ==> WARNING: No modules were added to the image. This is probably not
> what you want.
> ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-custom.img
> ==> Image generation successful
> #
> 
> The cause of the warning turned out to be that I had built the kernel
> with an 'empty' config file. 
> 
> $ zcat /proc/config > config
> 
> instead of
> 
> $ zcat /proc/config > .config
>  
> (note the dot on config)
> 
> If I was more experienced I would have realised this when the compile
> time was so short. It was only  while replying to Pablo with the steps I
> had taken to build the kernel that I noticed my error.
> 
> So, thank you to the kernelnewbies mailing list.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobin Harding
> 
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