Chicks_Hate_Me's Journal: I'm too sexy for my kernel, too sexy for my make-kpkg...

I've recompiled my kernel a few times in Redhat (nightmare) and Debian, but never bothered to use the command make-kpkg. After checking out debianplanet.org's howto Quickstart guide to kernel-package. I decided to use it and it was quite an adventure...

Kernel wont compile!

At first, when issuing a

"make-kpkg --revision=8:turin.1.0 kernel_image"

I would get compiles errors, I did a little research and it seemed that kernel 2.4.18 is not compatible with gcc-3.3 (funk dat noise.) So I installed gcc-2.95 and passed the following command:

MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg --append-to-version -200310251 --revision cus tom.1 kernel_image

That allowed it compile, but it still gave errors in regards to making symbolic links. I'm sure this had to do something with the EXTRAVERSION in the makefile but I tried everything and eventually gave up. I decided instead of apt-get'ing the kernel source to just download the newest kernel from kernel.org So I did, and extracted the source and issued this same command...

"make-kpkg --revision=8:turin.1.0 kernel_image"

Wham, bam, thank you mam. Now I gots me a .deb kernel image. I did a...

dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.22_turin.1.0_i386.deb

from /usr/src and it asked me a few questions. I said 'no' to most of them because I did not want it messing up my install. I reran lilo and rebooted my computer...

turin:/usr/src# uname -a Linux turin 2.4.22 #1 Sat Oct 25 11:10:56 PDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux

...w3rd