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On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Tom wrote: |
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> >who needs an initramfs? |
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> Not me ;) |
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> But seeing this discussion, I've finally realised that I'm a dumbass. |
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> For ages now I've been manually copying the kernel, the system.map and |
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> the config around my filesystem. I've always wondered how on earth |
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> people manage who do a lot of kernel testing without exploding due to |
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> frustration. Now I know... :) |
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> But out of curiosity, and to recap: |
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> I can set the version, either in the kernel config with |
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> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION |
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> or by using a file |
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> localversion |
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> containing a version string? |
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I am using the first way, don't know the second. |
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> Does this then create a bzImage-versionstring file, and make install |
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> copies this to /boot/kernel-versionstring (and system.map and .config |
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> respectably)? |
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vmlinuz-versionstring. |
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> Also how exactly do you then need to build the kernel. |
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> Does a simple 'make' suffice? |
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I use: |
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make all modules_install install. |
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