Problems with bootp and self-compiled kernels

[Phil]

Hi all!

I wanted to add aic7xxx support in the boot kernel (I don't know if it
should have been loaded automatically as a module, but it did not do so)
but I was not able to boot because the kernel did not send any bootp
requests.

To be sure I did not misconfigure my kernel, I took a fresh vanilla
2.2.19, copied /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot/config-2.2.19 to .config, made
menuconfig to create config.h and compiled this kernel, which I put in
place of the old one in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot/. Then I
make-fai-floppy. But the result is the same.

(an extract of the .config :
[...]
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
# CONFIG_RTNETLINK is not set
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=m
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP is not set
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ALIAS is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
CONFIG_INET_RARP=m
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
# CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64 is not set
[...]
)

Any Idea ?

Btw, I tried to apt-get source fai-kernel.

the I option is used in tar and it should be -j :

[...]
tar Ixf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19.tar.bz2
tar: Warning: the -I option is not supported; perhaps you meant -j or -T?
Try `tar --help' for more information.
make: *** [unpack-stamp] Error 2

for iinfo, here it is :
deneb:/tmp/fai-kernels-1.1.3$ find -type f | xargs grep "tar Ixf"
./debian/rules: tar Ixf /usr/src/$(kname).tar.bz2

Thanks.

-- 
Philippe Biondi <pbi@ cartel-info.fr>   Cartel Informatique
Security Consultant/R&D                 http://www.cartel-info.fr
Phone: +33 1 44 06 97 94                Fax: +33 1 44 06 97 99
PGP KeyID:3D9A43E2  FingerPrint:C40A772533730E39330DC0985EE8FF5F3D9A43E2