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No vmlinuz and initrd after building the kernel?
After configuring and building the kernel using make, why don't I have vmlinuz-<version>-default.img and initrd-<version>.img, but only got a huge vmlinux binary (~150MB)?
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How can I compile getopt and getopts separately? [migrated]
I am looking at the source for bash, and I was able to create a getopts.c using the mkbuiltins executable. Now I am trying to create separate getopt and getopts binaries. How can I go about doing ...
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Build a module from another kernel
Is it possible to use a module (wacom) from a more recent kernel ? My current kernel is 3.1.2 and the module is from kernel 3.4rc4.
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Can I build a linux distro with libc instead of glibc
I recently had a conversation with a friend who is a highly skill software engineer, and he showed me some articles outlining the fact libc was much better than glibc.
I wonder if its possible to ...
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Am I in the right direction for a linux os?
I compiled the linux kernel by downloading it from kernel.org, put it on my desktop, and opened up terminal. I changed to the linux-3.2.13 folder, typed mr proper.
Then I use "make menuconfig" to ...
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ldconfig not finding libprotobuf.so
I am attempting to install the protobuf library on a Redhat system (Amazon EC2's Linux build). I ran configure, make, and make install without a problem, and the .so libraries were copied over to ...
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Compiling and running linux test project
I'm trying to install Linux Test Project (LTP) on Debian 6.0.2, kernel 2.6.33.20. Compilation and installation went fine and without errors, but when I try to run basic tests
$ ./runltp
I get ...
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Compiling a kernel module with some options
I have a bug in a driver (iwlwifi/iwlagn), which I have reported, and the developers are asking me to "build the driver with debug options enabled." More specifically:
Debugging output is enabled ...
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How do I search for Linux distro build tools?
After having worked through Linux From Scratch, I get the eerie feeling that in practice, this is not how new distros are built.
How do I search for tools that other distributions are built with? Is ...
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Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs after new kernel compile
So I've been at this for a while and have been poking around for an answer for a few days, and figure it's about time to ask for help. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 in VMWare Fusion, and have downloaded ...
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How to develop a small linux distro?
Since Linux uses open-source packages, I was wondering if I could develop my own Linux distro by compiling these packages.
I tried to read the Linux From Scratch book but it's quite big and uses lots ...
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Compiling a distribution unspecific kernel on two different distributions
I downloaded kernel 3.2.1 from the kernel.org.
Compiled it "successfully" on OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit.
When I tried to compile the same kernel source on Ubuntu 11.10, I got:
ERROR: ...
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__modver_version_show undefined error during make
Platform: Ubuntu 11.10 64bit
Kernel to be compiled: 3.2.1
Error after make:
ERROR: "__modver_version_show" [drivers/staging/rts5139/rts5139.ko] undefined!
To solve this I copied the .config file of ...
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modprobe: Module ext4 not found. WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'ext4' found
I rebooted a compiled kernel 3.1.0, and those are the errors that I am getting:
linux-dopx:/usr/src/linux-3.1.0-1.2 # make install
sh /usr/src/linux-3.1.0-1.2/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.1.0 ...
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Precautions to be taken while make oldconfig
If a previous kernel (assuming it is not from the stone age) compiles successfully, does it make sense to assume that old config file if copied to the new kernel, will compile successfully too?
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