Re: [uml-user] building debian kernel package

[Allen C. <al...@us...>]

Try setting INITRD_OK=1 in your environment before the build.

Also, if you don't want the extra version string, remove the 
localversion-skas file after the skas patch.

On Friday 14 January 2005 04:53 pm, Jelle Boomstra wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Todady I treid to build a skas enabled kernel, as a debian
> kernel-image package. I started out with the pristine source as
> supplied by apt, applied the 2.6.10 skas3 patch, dropped in a
> .config, and build the package with make-kpkg --initrd
> kernel_image.
> The packeg is build without problems, but when I try to install it,
> it comes up with an error because the initrd image cannot be build:
>
>    Setting up kernel-image-2.6.10-skas3-v7 (10.00.Custom) ...
>    /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /lib/modules/2.6.10-skas3-v7: Not a
> directory /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: MODULES needs to be set to none?
>    Failed to create initrd image.
>    dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.10-skas3-v7 (--install):
>     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status
> 2 Errors were encountered while processing:
>     kernel-image-2.6.10-skas3-v7
>
> the name of the modules directory indeed is not 2.6.10-skas3-v7 but
> 2.6.10-skas3-v7skas. Somehow somewhere an extra skas is appended to
> the version name, but not in all places.
>
> Anybody any idea where this comes from and how to solve it?