Comments on Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO: Custom Kernel Compile

You commented that "You want to compile your very ...

2009-10-23T04:23:04.959-04:00

You commented that "You want to compile your very own linux kernel ? No ? Well you should" and I just wonder "Why should I?"

I just bought but not received yet a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core QX9300 laptop and I will be putting 64bit debian or ubuntu on it and I wonder if you get more power/speed by compiling your own kernel???

How to compile my kernel that define rdtsc/rdtscll...

2009-10-05T12:44:42.399-04:00

How to compile my kernel that define rdtsc/rdtscll function?

Scratch that... use a number that is the SAME as y...

2008-12-19T14:18:06.672-05:00

Scratch that... use a number that is the SAME as your cores, i.e. dual =2 and quad =4.

For more, see:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=33960&highlight=

Great guide, thanks! If you have a dual or quad c...

2008-12-13T14:12:51.713-05:00

Great guide, thanks! If you have a dual or quad core CPU, you can make the build process much faster by doing the following before the "build the kernel package" step:

For dual core chips:
# export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3

For quad core chips:
# export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=5

The number in the end means 1 + "the number of cores."

those two params: --us --uc force not to sign pac...

2008-11-26T06:35:25.633-05:00

those two params: --us --uc force not to sign package and changelog. So my question: is there any option to force sign package ?

what about initramfs? didnt that depricate initrd?...

2007-08-14T22:52:12.819-04:00

what about initramfs? didnt that depricate initrd?

Starting with 2.6.19 the IDE/SATA configuration of...

2007-03-10T17:41:35.302-05:00

Starting with 2.6.19 the IDE/SATA configuration of the kernel changed drastically.

So you might want to verify that you included the proper SATA (or IDE) drivers for your disk controller (in make menuconfig).

Perhaps that is the problem.

If not, feel free to start on a thread on LinuxForums.org, and I

Ok, I know I am doing SOMETHING very wrong, but I ...

2007-03-08T07:55:54.156-05:00

Ok, I know I am doing SOMETHING very wrong, but I don't know what. I tried yesterday to build and install a 2.6.20 kernel with CK patches. Everything seemed to go well (configured the kernel, made an image, made modules, made an initrd and installed them all). However, when I tried to boot into the new kernel it hung - not a kernel panic, it just got stuck when it tried to load the filesystem and

Hi anonymous,If I remember correctly, for make xco...

2007-02-09T01:41:39.816-05:00

Hi anonymous,

If I remember correctly, for make xconfig to work you need to install the package libqt3-mt-dev.

The other possible interface (gnome style) is make gconfig, which depends on libglade2-dev.

Personally I don't use them, as I find make menuconfig to work much better.

Thanks for the feedback,

Hugues

what about xconfig, the qt prerequisites and setti...

2007-02-07T03:17:52.325-05:00

what about xconfig, the qt prerequisites and setting QTDIR?

That's very helpful! Thanks

2007-01-25T13:05:00.000-05:00

That's very helpful!

Thanks

Nice howto but it is not a good idea to compile a ...

2006-12-22T22:49:00.000-05:00

Nice howto but it is not a good idea to compile a vanilla kernel source but a Debian kernel source.

The kernel team does not release a new kernel whenever a security bug has been fixed and reserves new versions for technological advancements.

On the other hand, Debian maintainers have crafted security fixes plus a selected bunch of patches that ain't going to be in your

aahhh! That totally explains my dfficulty with ude...

2006-11-17T21:48:59.673-05:00

aahhh! That totally explains my dfficulty with udev. I didn't realise etch was so close to release. I'll give it a go.

Cheers,

Ryan

A few things here.Sarge ships with udev 0.56, but ...

2006-11-17T09:19:16.990-05:00

A few things here.

Sarge ships with udev 0.56, but compiling the 2.6.18 kernel requires udev 0.71 (see Documentation/Changes). So I guess it is possible things could go wrong because of that. You can either upgrade to Etch (Etch is RC 1 now, and schedule for December 4 : it is perfectly stable), or use the backported version of udev for Sarge (from backports.org).

I believe

Nice walkthrough...believe me I've seen a few of l...

2006-11-16T18:46:51.470-05:00

Nice walkthrough...believe me I've seen a few of late.

I'm using sarge-amd64 stable and I think I'm running into a devfs-udev-LVM issue. I have udev installed for the 2.6.18.2 kernel but on boot up I get a message along the lines of "cannot open device /dev/mapper/VG1-LV1" (Volume group VG1 and Logical Volume LV1 which has my "/" filesystem on it.) It then says something about devfs not

Really good!Thanks

2006-11-12T04:54:49.203-05:00

Really good!

Thanks

an other really good howto for all debian user ;)C...

2006-11-09T19:15:21.073-05:00

an other really good howto for all debian user ;)

Carcass

Hi there,Cheers for replying.I guess I am not 100%...

2006-07-15T09:09:41.280-04:00

Hi there,

Cheers for replying.

I guess I am not 100% clear on how packages work on linux.
Once you have your source ready and you decide to compile it in a deb package
will that deb ONLY work on the specific kernel it was built on or is it possible to use it on other kernels?

I assume that you can use deb packages compiled versus a 2.6 kernel on any incarnation

Not sure I understand what you mean exactly."lose ...

2006-07-13T14:42:07.036-04:00

Not sure I understand what you mean exactly.

"lose the capability of using my distros apt-get utility"?

I posted a little more up-to-date how-to here (my nickname is "antidrugue" on linuxforums.org) :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/331741-post2.html

Or you can check the "Debian Reference, Chapter 7" :
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/

Hi there,If I compile a custom kernel, so I lose t...

2006-07-13T14:27:35.806-04:00

Hi there,

If I compile a custom kernel, so I lose the capability of using my distros apt-get utility?
If so, what can be done to remedy this?

Cheers