Hi,
Sorry for the late reply.
I have downloaded a 2.6.17 Linux kernel, compiled it
on an Intel PIII system running Debian Sarge. It boots
fine with ext3 filesystem on IDE hard-disk. The
filesystem options in the .config are as follows:
#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
# CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
# CONFIG_QFMT_V2 is not set
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
I try to avoid the distro kernels, because they are
always tweaked, modified, and patched by the distro
kernel maintainers. I prefer to compile a stock kernel
from kernel.org.
Steps followed (for reference):
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.17
make clean
make menuconfig
make
make modules_install
make install
yaird -o /boot/initrd-2.6.17.img 2.6.17
I have not used the make-kpkg tool from Debian. yaird
is yet another mkinitrd.
http://www.dominik-epple.de/Sarge-Linux_2.6.14-yaird/index.html
Regards,
SK
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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
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