On 3/22/07, John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Phil Meyer wrote: > Jeff Mutonho wrote: >> On 3/21/07, John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> "make install" runs mkinitrd automagically, you don't need to do it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> John >> >> It seems not to be doing it >> > > Just for completeness: > > Are you running 'make modules_install install' as root? > > I has always worked for me. :( Although I have not tried with the > latest kernel. > I have to confess that I don't use a Fedora kernel (I'm running vanilla 2.6.20.3 from kernel.org), so I should just shut up. I can however report that make, make modules_install, make install is all I have to do here. Regards, John
I decided to try 'make rpm' which created the kernel rpm which I installed. I then ran ' new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-build-1' which created my initrd and added an entry to my grub.conf file.However on rebooting , the new kernel failed to load with the same error message as before : "Error 13:Invalid or unsupported executable format Press any key to continue....." Pressing any key redirects me back to the grub menu, and selecting the older kernel still works. Maybe the source rpm I downloaded (kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm)is wrong ?When I did $rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort I got : kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i386 kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686 for the currently installed kernel(i.e the one installed by Anaconda).Isn't kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm is the correct source rpm , right? Here's my processor info : processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping : 2 -- "Don't take the name of root in vain." Jeff Mutonho Cape Town South Africa GoogleTalk : ejbengine Skype : ejbengine Registered Linux user number 366042