Documentation of custom kernel use

[ejonesca at yahoo.com]

You're awesome.  Thank you.  The --initrd flag and setting up the local repository were the two things I was missing. 


--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> From: Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
> Subject: Re: Documentation of custom kernel use
> To: ejonesca at yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 2:09 PM
> >>>>> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:42:27 -0800
> (PST), "ejonesca at yahoo.com"
> <ejonesca at yahoo.com> said:
> 
>     > I noticed that the wiki page:
>     >
> http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Using_customized_kernels_with_FAI
> You are right. This is one problem with most wikis.
> 
> 
>     > is out of date (i.e. it uses deprecated variables
> that don't
>     > work).  Can someone point me to some more up to
> date
>     > instructions on using a custom kernel in FAI?
> Build your customized kernel by building a kernel package
> using
> make-kpkg and use the option --initrd. Copy this Debian
> package to a
> local repository and add it to /etc/fai/sources.list. Add
> the name of
> your package to /etc/fai/NFSROOT. Then rebuild the nfsroot.
> 
>     > but I can't find
>     > any documentation on that file either. 
> Oooops. It's really missing. I will add some word to
> the guide in the next version.
> 
> -- 
> regards Thomas