Re: [Morphix-devel] A little help with kernel

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I would recommend making a debian package and adding it to your basemod
xml package list. It's what I did :) For details look at make-kpkg. There
is more then one way to do it.

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> Hi Gabriel,
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> Gabriel wrote:
>> Is it possible what I'm trying to do ?
>> Do you guys have any link or file that can send my to enlight my ideas ?
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> It's very much possible to change the kernel!
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> But first Nvidia and ATI. In the morphix package repository, the
> 2.6.17-morphix kernel is available with a nvidia-kernel package for it.
> If you use a base ISO with this combination then you merely have to
> install nvidia-glx in the mainmodule to get hardware acceleration
> running. ATI should be even easier, it just needs the fglrx-kernel
> package installed. See the autobuilds on morphix.org/autobuilds and the
> packages in morphix.org/debian.
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> Now, a custom kernel. It's possible to do so by hand, but you'll need to
> do a bit of work:
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> 1. build your custom kernel
> 2. build your third-party kernel modules, and the cloop and unionfs
> kernel modules
> 3. open the base ISO that you want to modify with the new kernel (mount
> - -o loop base.iso /cdrom). Copy over it's contents into a directory order
> to modify it.
> 4. replace yourbase/boot/vmlinuz with your kernel (bzImage)
> 5. gunzip and mount yourbase/boot/miniroot.gz, swap the modules in
> yourminiroot/modules with the ones from your kernel, and make sure cloop
> is in here too. gzip the miniroot and make sure it is replaced in
> yourbase/boot/miniroot.gz
> 6. use module-extractor (from the morphix repository) to unpack
> yourbase/base/morphix into a directory. Install all your kernel modules
> into it. use module-builder to compress the directory back into
> yourbase/base/morphix.
>
> That's about it in a nutshell. There are tools and scripts written to
> automate this process (change-base-kernel.sh in morph-scripts, and
> isomaker does the above from scratch to make a new base ISO), but this
> works if all else fails.
>
> cheers,
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