Hi all! First of all, i am a newbie, but, since i have fairly new hardware i had problems running the etch 2.6.18 vanilla kernel and started to customize it. recompiled it a few times, destroyed the mdr, crashed everything, but, at the end, i have a fully booting/working/serving machine. Now since my kernel has grown quite big i would like to modularize it. here comes the problem: before this last attempt i have used make-kpkg, following the instruction from http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian_etch but i have tried the simple make/make install (which did not worked for me) too, before, resulting in an unusable initrd image. well: yesterday the make-kpkg / dpkg resulted in a perfect build/install, today issuing Code: fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-teps01 kernel-image kernel-headers gave me Code: Warning: The file include/linux/version.h exists The contained UTS_VERSION string: "" does not match expectations: "2.6.18-teps01" I'll try and recover exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=2.6.18-teps01-max_mod-10.00.Custom APPEND_TO_VERSION=-teps01 INITRD=YES kernel-image kernel-headers parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at file debian/changelog line 1 i've tried to add a line in /usr/src/linux.etcetera/include/linux/version.h Code: #define UTS_VERSION 2.6.18-teps01 but nothing changes. i cant explain why yesterday it worked and today not. well, the only thing it occurred in the meantime is the removal of vmware (sever, client, mui) and the reinstall of the server only. also i'd like to know what should i do to uninstall the other kernels i built and i dont need anymore. any suggestion appreciated. thanks in advance/sorry for approximate english andrea
half job done... thanks falko, the kernels i installed with dpkg i can successfully remove with Code: dpkg -P --force-remove-essential linux-image/headers-xxx i got the names of the installed kernels by means of Code: dpkg -l | grep linux but the kernels i installed with make install i cant figure out how to uninstall without, perhaps, messing up the system. I imagine i should delete the config-xxx, initrd.img-xxx, system.map-xxx, vmlinuz-xxx from /boot and xxx from /lib/modules but then? is that enough? thanks again, azzo
Solved! i dont know why, but reinstalling build-essentials and kernel-package Code: apt-get remove build-essentials kernel-package apt-get install build-essentials kernel-package and then unpacking again the linux-source, copying the .config i devised made the build possible. simply reunpacking the source didn't solve. hope people with the same problem will find this useful. Still, if anyone knows how to clean well a non-dpkg install, ill be glad to know!
