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On Monday 06 November 2006 18:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch |
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> for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that |
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> no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has |
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> booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source from www.kernel.org , |
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> and it seems to have built correctly. I followed the following |
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> steps: |
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> |
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> cd /usr/src |
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> tar xvfj /home/michael/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 |
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> rm linux; ln -s linux-2.6.11.12 linux |
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> cd linux |
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> make mrproper |
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> make menuconfig |
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> make bzImage |
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> make modules |
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make modules_install |
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> |
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> I didn't apply the patch because I wanted to see if I could get |
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> the vanilla kernel to work before altering it. Everything seemed |
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> to build correctly. As I've had many many problems with trying |
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> to boot kernels without an initrd (on top of the fact that no |
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> manually-built kernel has worked), I emerged mkinitrd. WWhen I |
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> tried to use it, it gave me an error saying that |
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> /lib/modules/linux-2.6.11.12 is not a directory. An ls showed me |
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> that it didn't exist in any form. My question is where are the |
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> modules that were built? Can I just move the modules over (once |
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> I find them), or do I need to create some type of subdirectory |
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> structure? |
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Peter |
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Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r3 kernel-2.6.18-gentoo |
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ gcc(GCC): 4.1.1 |
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KDE: 3.5.5 Qt: 3.3.6 |
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