On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Vipul Jain wrote: > Hi Kernel Alias, > > I downloaded latest kernel source from kernel.org and tried to build it > at a directory outside source by giving O=<path option> but I noticed that > initrd image is not getting build but if I execute make inside source > things are fine. > > [Build Kernel/Modules etc inside source] > ~/linux-stable/> make > ~/linux-stable/> make install > ~/linux-stable/> make install_modules > ~/linux-stable/> su -c "reboot -f" > > everything works out fine and system gives me selection to boot from > newly build kernel and system boots up without issues. But if I build as > below I see system OOPS because no file system found for mount. Would > like to know why? > > [Build outside] > ~/linux-stable/> make O=~/linux-build/ > ~/linux-stable/> cd ../linux-build/ Don't do that. > ~/linux-stable/> make install make O=~/linux-build install > ~/linux-stable/> make install_modules make O=~/linux-build install_modules hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
