I am trying to compile a new kernel (2.6.19-2) from (2.6.8-2) as per this how-to: http://how2forge.org/kernel_compilation_debian_p2 All seems to go well until I try to follow instructions to create ramdisk. My last successful step was: cd /tmp wget http://downloads.howtoforge.com/files/yaird_0.0.12-8bpo1_i386.deb * dpkg -i yaird_0.0.12-8bpo1_i386.deb After the above command * and according to how-to I should find the new initrd.img for the new kernel under /boot... created But, I do not see the new initrd.img - which should be: initrd.img-2.6.19-2-386... I tryed to do a find (find / |grep initrd) to see if this file was placed somewhere else and none to be found... Some output if it helps: /boot# ls -la total 8471 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2007-02-02 12:33 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 2007-02-02 01:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68424 2007-02-02 12:37 config-2.6.19.2-default1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55809 2005-08-16 08:41 config-2.6.8-2-386 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-02-02 01:46 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4509696 2007-02-02 01:45 initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 (Old initrd.img) drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2007-02-02 01:42 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 766954 2007-02-02 12:28 System.map-2.6.19.2-default1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865767 2005-08-16 11:14 System.map-2.6.8-2-386 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1249637 2007-02-02 12:28 vmlinuz-2.6.19.2-default1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1097554 2005-08-16 11:14 vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 Any thouhgts? Thanks in advance for your help! Joe
It doesn't say you should find the new initrd in /boot, it says you should find the new kernel configuration file in /boot. The initrd has still to be created. Please read that section again.
