小菜请教各位Debian编译内核的问题

cabernet

我从前在RedHat/FC上编译内核，都是make;make modules;make modules_install;make install;然后可以在grub的menu.list里看到新的启动项，而且initrd.img-*这个文件也生成好了。
现在在Debian上编译，同样的过程，需要自己配置grub，生成initrd.img这个文件。

请问此时还需要做哪些工作？只生成initrd.img这个文件就可以了吗？
initrd.img这个文件怎么生成啊？

d00m3d

You can do a search in the Debian page for hints in compiling kernel in Debian.

Actually, you can use the following command as root to build your own kernel package:

#tar jxf linux-2.6.xxx
#cd linux-2.6.xxx
#make mrproper
#make menuconfig

#make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom kernel-image

Once finish, you will have a kernel-image-2.6.xxx-custom-*.deb in your parent directory. So:

#cd ..

Install this newly built kernel with dpkg -i,

#dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.xxx-custom-*.deb

It should automatically update your menu.lst.

If you want to create a initrd, you should make sure you have installed the initrd-tools package.

The following steps are optional:
1. edit /etc/mkinitrd/modules to add the modules you want to load in the initrd
2. edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf to make changes that suit your need.

If no changes are needed or you finish making changes, then you may create the initrd by:

#mkinitrd -o initrd.img kernel-version

Copy this initrd.img to /boot and make change to your menu.lst.