What stops you from pulling the vanilla source and compiling the kernel yourself.<br><br>Cheers,<br> - G<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com">lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi -<div>I have downloaded & complied a kernel version 2.6.35. Now I need to create initramfs - I found that fedora doesn't have mkinitramfs command.</div>
<div>It has something called dracut. I tried to use it "dracut initramfs.2.6.35.img 2.6.35" and edited menu.lst.</div>
<div>But the kernel is not booting .No error message (I assume it because it fails to find initramfs).</div><div><br></div><div>Any one tried mkinitramfs with Fedora? I tried mkinitrd -it fails too.</div><div><br></div><div>
I'm still using Fedora <a href="tel:12%20%C2%A02.6.32.26-175" value="+12263226175" target="_blank">12 2.6.32.26-175</a>.fc12.x86_64</div><div><br></div><div><div>Question 2:</div><div>Anyone installed 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 kernel source ? I download 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 src rpm It has lot of patches.When I tried apply few of them got rejected. why Fedora doesn't provide their kernel with all these patches applied by themselves rather than expecting end-user to spent their time in apply/debugging it? </div>
<div><br></div></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><div>-- <br>----<br>Cheers,<br>Lakshmipathi.G<br>FOSS Programmer.<br><a href="http://www.giis.co.in" target="_blank">www.giis.co.in</a></div>
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