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Eddiie
Installing Kernel Doesn't Work
February 09, 2013 02:06PM
I have a new Kernel built... dpkg -i *.deb...

Looks good.

When I reboot, still the old kernel.

How do I use the new kernel?
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bodhi
Re: Installing Kernel Doesn't Work
February 09, 2013 02:56PM
Eddie,

"dpkg -i" will only generate new vmlinuz and initrd.img in your /boot directory.

Go to /boot directory and find these 2 new files generated by dpkg. They should look like these:

vmlinuz-x.x.x-x-kirkwood
initrd.img-x.x.x-x-kirkwood

where x.x.x.x is the version number

Then run these 2 commands 

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-x.x.x.x-kirkwood -d /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x.x-kirkwood /boot/uImage
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-x.x.x.x-kirkwood -d /boot/initrd.img-x.x.x.x-kirkwood /boot/uInitrd



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2013 02:58PM by bodhi.
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