** Reply to message from Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org> on Sat,
30 Nov 2002 10:05:42 +0100 (CET)
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to roll my own k2.4.19 kernel in an attempt to solve
> the dramatic performance isssue of VmWare on shipped kernels. (Thanks to
> the bloody patches that bugger up the NICE values.)
>
> The shipped kernels can boot from a raid1 root but I can not make my own
> kernel do this.
>
> My procedure is:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> VERSION=2.4.19
> KERNELDIR=/usr/local/src/linux-${VERSION}
> pushd ${KERNELDIR}
> # GENERIC
> make menuconfig
> make dep && \
> make clean && \
> make bzImage && \
> make modules && \
> make modules_install &&
I would delete all your mkinitrd directives and just append the following line
to the above:
make install
This is a post-make script that builds the intird, links the System.map in
boot, adds the appropriate stanza in grub.conf and does eveything you took 4 or
5 lines to do. Try it.
jb
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