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Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional

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From: Dave Jones <davej@...>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...>
Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 - 11:32 am

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:43:06AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 
 > So it's like:
 > 	<hack hack hack>
 > 	make modules_install
 > 	cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/mykernel
 > 	cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.26.1
 > 	mkinitrd -i /boot/myinitrd -k /boot/mykernel # suse, fedora might slightly different

For Fedora (and many other distros), you can replace the last three lines with 'make install'
It'll do everything. Construct the initrd. Install it & the vmlinuz, point grub.conf at it. etc.

	Dave

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Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Rusty Russell, (Mon May 5, 12:55 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon May 5, 2:35 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 1:05 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon May 5, 2:43 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Dave Jones, (Mon May 5, 11:32 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon May 5, 12:01 pm)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Alan Cox, (Mon May 5, 11:57 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 11:48 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 10:37 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Jeff Garzik, (Mon May 5, 10:50 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 11:01 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 11:08 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Rusty Russell, (Mon May 5, 1:35 am)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Linus Torvalds, (Mon May 5, 1:07 pm)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, Rusty Russell, (Mon May 5, 2:42 pm)
Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional, David Miller, (Mon May 5, 3:47 pm)