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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > You are not supposed to send the Challenge to the list. It says that like 20 times when you sign up to the list :( -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies