I used to compile my kernels manually. But genkernel creates initrd
which i dont know how to make one manually.

i tried to compile 2.4.22-r4 and it worked without any probelm.

/V


Joseph wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:58:36 +0000, Shan Destromp wrote:
>
>
>>Genkernel is wothless when you really get down to it. All it does is take away you having to type
>>one line of commands, and give you the impression that its saving you time.
>
>
> You must be talking about the -old- genkernel...
>
> ================
> # genkernel --menuconfig all
>
> *** End of Linux kernel configuration.
>
> * kernel: running clean
> * kernel: skipping make dep for non 2.4 kernels
> * kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.6.1-rc2-gentoo make
> * kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.6.1-rc2-gentoo modules
> * Dietlibc: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/dietlibc-0.24-x86.tar.bz2
> * Busybox: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/busybox-1.00-pre3-patched-x86.bz2
> * module-init-tools: configure
> * extracting dietlibc bincache
> * module-init-tools: make all
> * cleaning up dietlibc bincache
> * module-init-tools: copying to bincache
> * module-init-tools: cleaning up
> * devfsd: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/devfsd-1.3.25-dietlibc-kernel25-x86.bz2 and /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/devfsd-conf-0.24-x86.bz2
> * initrd: creating base system
> * initrd: copying modules
> * initrd: copying auxilary files
> * initrd: calculating initrd size
> * initrd: calculated size 900 + 100k slop for fs overhead
> * initrd: real size 1000
> * initrd: creating loopback filesystem
> * initrd: moving initrd fs to loopback
> * initrd: cleaning up and compressing initrd
> * initrd: copying bootsplash
> * DONE
> ==================================
>