Recompiling new kernel

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Jason DeVita wrote:

> Ok, well, I've never made an initrd image, but from the man page,  
> it looks pretty simple.  Like this:
>
>   mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17.7.img 2.6.17.7

This generates the compressed archive as expected.
>
> Try "man mkinitrd" or "info mkinitrd" to read about it.  Then add  
> the "initrd" line back into yaboot.conf, but this time pointing to  
> the new initrd image:
>
>   initrd=/initrd-2.6.17.7.img

Done.

> You might also consider pointing yaboot at the new system map with  
> the line:
>
>   sysmap=/System.map-2.6.17.7
>
> (assuming that's what you called it.)

With and without the sysmap line, I get the same "Invalid memory  
access" error. It seems that there still remains one or more omitted  
steps.

Just one more thing, if this is of any importance, which I doubt, in  
the following section

[4] Build and install the kernel and modules

    # make vmlinux

    # make modules

Assuming no errors above

    # make modules_install
    # cp arch/ppc/boot/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7
    # cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7
    # ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7 /boot/System.map

I did "cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7" since the "vmlinux" binary  
was in the top-level directory and there was no "arch/ppc/boot"  
directory.

Thanks for all your help thus far.

Regards.
Ebrahim
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