Best practice to compile new FAI-Kernel?

[Juraj Holtak]

Am Montag, den 12.09.2005, 16:02 -0400 schrieb Terry Gliedt:

> I just went through this, so here's what I discovered.
> 
> I guess in theory you can take any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel source from 
> kernel.org, but my experience was that I wasn't smart enough to actually 
> make that work. The following, however, will absolutely work. The 
> precise details might vary with your environment, but this should be 
> very close to a "vanilla" setup. Good luck
> 
> Juraj Holtak wrote:
> > 
> > is it a good idea to grab kernel config from a present FAI kernel and
> > just apply it to a kernel of higher version?
> > 
> > I need more actual kernels because I`m trying to setup some fancy
> > maschines with sata drives and unsupported NICs.
> > 
> > Are there any gotchas doing it so?
> > 
> > Is somebody interessted in an unofficial FAI-kernel debian repository
> > and a FAI script exchange website? I`m playing with the idea to setup
> > something like this.
> * Get the Debian kernel source (e.g. /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27)
>    I always make a symlink like this:
>      ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27 /usr/src/linux
> 
> * Get the config file from FAI. I did:
> 
>    dpkg -x /data/tpg/libfai/kernel/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_1_i386.deb  \ 
> 
>         /tmp/crap
>    Copy the config file from /tmp/crap/boot to /usr/src/linux/.config
> 
> * Make the kernel as a Debian package
>      cd /usr/src/linux
>      make menuconfig
>      make-kpkg clean
>      make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version -fai \
>          --revision 2 kernel-image
> 
> * This results in a Debian FAI kernel package in /usr/src
>    Copy this to /usr/lib/fai/kernel
>      cp -p /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_2_i386.deb \
>        /usr/lib/fai/kernel
> 
> * Configure FAI to use this new kernel by setting this in
>    /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
>      KERNELPACKAGE=/usr/lib/fai/kernel/kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_2_i386.deb
> 
> * Create a new FAI boot image
>      make-fai-nfsroot -K
> 
> * Create a new FAI bootfloppy or CD or whatever you use to boot. E.g.
>      /usr/sbin/make-fai-bootfloppy -v \
>        nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot \
>        FAI_FLAGS=verbose,createvt vga=1
> 

Have you had any problems with plain vanilla kernels or why did u use
the debianized version?

cheers,
Juraj