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Install Kernel 2.4.20

A new IDE controller (Silicon Image CMD680) was installed delivering disks /dev/hde and /dev/hdg.

At the time of installing the CMD680 IDE controller chip kernel 2.4.19 (which supports this chip, but not kernel 2.4.18) was not available as a Debian package but had just been released. A kernel was compiled from source to get support for this new controller. The default [].config (i.e., starting from no [].config file) was the starting point. Below is recorded the specific configurations added.

  # cd /usr/src
  # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
  # tar zxvf linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
  # cd linux-2.4.19
  # make menuconfig
    Processor type and features
        Processor family
            CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
    Block devices
        RAM disk support
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
        Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
    ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
        IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=y
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680=y
    Sound
            CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=y
  # make-kpkg clean
  # make-kpkg --append-to-version -p4 --revision dha01 
              --initrd kernel_image
  # cd .. 
  # wajig install kernel-image-2.4.19-p4_dha01_i386.deb

This works just fine and all standard drivers (CDROM and NFS) were included by default. The resulting kernel is quite a bit smaller that the kernels supporting lots of hardware (700K initrd cf 2.4MB and 56K modules cf 20MB)!


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