Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:21:59 +0000, Paulo da Silva wrote:
>
>
>>[...]
>>The reason I am trying another distribution is the time consuming to
>>compile the programs. gentoo is an excelent distribution and, being
>>compiled locally, very performant. But it takes to much time for
>>simple upgrades.
>>
>>Anyway, I am trying also to compile the sources but using the debian way
>>as reported in
>>http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/deb...el2.6_compile/
>>
>>BTW, how did you manage the initrd stuff? Did you just skip it?
>
>
> Yes, I skipped the initrd. I never figured out how to get an initrd
> working, and initrd is not really needed as long as the "important" stuff
> is compiled directly into the kernel.
>

That's what I did and now everything is running fine.
Compiling the kernel debian way did not work either!
I think initrd images generated, at least for the "testing"
version, are broken.
Hopefully someone from devel. have a word about this ...
I reported a bug anyway ...